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Question #78626 on gparted in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+question/78626

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Hi :)

Wine programs are 'installed' in the users home folder, such as

/home/user/.wine/drive_c

the "." in front of "wine" makes it a hidden folder, system folders tend
to have that "." in front. So sda2 can happily stay very low at 5Gb or
maybe 10Gb.  The /home folder also contains folders such as

/home/user/Documents
/home/user/Music
/home/user/Video
/home/user/Pictures

I like to keep the username really short but it's just occured to me
that "user" is longer than "tom" lol.  While you can partition your
drive to have separate mount points for each of these i tend to find
that such systems are very inflexible and cumbersome.  It tends to be
bette practice to minimise the number of different partitions unless it
solves a particular problem or 3.  What would happen if some new album
couldn't quite fit on the music partition but there was a lot of empty
space in pictures?  Resizing and moving partitions takes ages and has an
element of risk of corrupting data.  If you really felt the need to keep
Windows stuff separate then you could create a partition and set it's
mount point to

/home/user/.wine

I wouldn't worry tho.  I think the worst a Windows virus in Wine could do would be to try to infect other programs in Wine but mostly they would just be completely lost and looking for directions.  This is how much trouble native linux viruses have and they know their way around the system ;)
http://librenix.com/?inode=21

The main advantage of being able to set mount-points on other partitions
is when you have 2 physical drives (or more).  At the moment my OS is on
a 10Gb hard-drive but the swap and my /home are on a 1TB drive.  If the
10Gb drive was ultra fast extremely new perhaps solid-state-drive rather
than an ancient heap of junk that has miraculously survived then it
might be an ideal setup.  Some people put certain of the OS's folders,
such as ones that have frequent read/writes on separate fast drives so
that the read/write heads don't have to keep bouncing around between
different folders.  Most of the performance hit is when you can move the
swap onto a separate drive from your OS although with 3Gb of ram that
might not be an issue except maybe when you're using a Windows in a
virtual machine to play high-definition movies or a hefty game.  I guess
it doesn't make much sense to have the swap on the same drive as the
data but it's better than it being on the same drive as the OS.  The
main reason for having a separate /home is for any time i might
need/want to reinstall the OS without having to worry too much about
backing up all my data first.

I would also stick with 32bit Ubuntu, the main advantage is when you
need to use over 3.5Gb ram.  I only have 2Gb and seldom use more than
half of that.  However i'm not sure how that affects the virtual machine
so maybe the 64bit version is better because then you wouldn't be
restricted to a 32bit OS in the vm, which is what i suspect 32bit Ubuntu
might do.

Ooops, sorry for such a long ramble in this thread!
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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