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Question #79072 on Ubuntu changed:
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jbowen7 posted a new comment:
Tom,

In your partitioning setup you only mentioned sda, but what about sdb, the
second hard drive?
I hadn't really thought about it but you're right, it would be wise of me to
have XP and/or Windows7, since I would benefit from being familiar with the
OS that the rest of the world is using.
I've decided to stick with 6 GB of triple channel ram (3x2gb) rather than 8
GB  of dual channel (4x2gb); I believe it will be more efficient. Now as far
as the Swap is concerned, which at 6 GB  of ram I may never use, I realized
that leaving the swap on a SSD partition would be detrimental to that drive
since it would rapidly fill the blocks up, that is if the swap was ever
used.
So there's a new dilemma--will the computer utilize swap if it's on another
drive, say sdb1 or sdb2?
Combining what you suggested with what I said, what do you think about this
setup:
sda= SSD ; sdb=some other Tb drive at 7200 rpm
sda1: 25 gb Primary ext3 for /   ( i figured 25 since my packages/apps will
be here also)
sda2: 15 gb Primary nfts for /    (Xp) (can i use nfts for this partition,
and could would it still be sda3: 15 gb Primary nfts for /
(Windows7)                                                         named /?)
sda3: 5-6 gb primary/extended for /  (another distro)

then,

sdb1 for /home        lots of gb
sdb2 for linuxswap   8.5 gb

Questions:
1) will my media and documents on sdb1 named /home still be accessible by Xp
and windows7 even if it's labeled /home, or would i have to label it
/c:/something/something?
2) Or, would I have to make a-whole-nother partition accessible by windows
and duplicate files to that partition?
3) can I format one partition with ext3 and another with ntfs?


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On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Tom <question79072@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Your question #79072 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/79072
>
> Tom posted a new comment:
> Hi :)
>
> Yes, the pathname for my Wine programs is
>
> /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files
>
> but only Windows programs get installed there so it's only Windows
> programs that get installed into the /home folder.  Typically, config
> settings will be in a text file like
>
> /home/user/.neverball/settings/config/neverballrc
>
> but the actual program will be stored elsewhere and the log-files and
> general activity will happen elsewhere, neither will be in /home.  Note
> the "." in front of system folders so that these folders are considered
> "hidden", perhaps even "system-folders".
>
> I think the main two points with SSDs is that speed is not relative to
> distance from the front of the drive and also that there's no read/write
> head moving from one area to another in order to read/write.  Before all
> the blocks in a partition have been written to once, you do get a false
> impression of ridiculously fast read/writes but once this honeymoon
> period is over you have to settle for normal performance which is merely
> phenomenally fast.  I'm not sure that saying it's over a certain type of
> other drive really does it justice.  I get the impression that it would
> be like saying that a car is faster than going by foot, faster even than
> running!
>
> Now that i have heard how large your ram is i'm not so sure about
> putting it at the front of the drive in a "Primary Partition".  It would
> make more sense to stick it at the end of the drive inside a Logical
> Partition which would be inside an "Extended Partition".  Partly that's
> because it's difficult for me to adjust to thinking about SSDs but also
> as a drive can only have 4 Primary Partitions - or 3 Primary and 1
> Extended, the only way to have more than 4 partitions is to put all the
> rest in an Extended Partition.  Given that you only need the swap to
> cover a scenario much more likely to happen to a laptop and very
> unlikely in a desktop machine it seems a waste to give the swap a
> Primary Partition.  I think i would now be considering something like
> this
>
> sda1 15Gb Primary ext3 for /
> sda2 20Gb Primary ext3 for /home - temporarily. Windows Xp here afterwards?
> sda3 large Primary for Windows inside a virtual machine again temporarily
> as fat32
> sda4 14Gb Extended Partition, this can always be resized later if required
>  . sda5 5.5Gb unallocated but ready to use for trying out other OS's, such
> as other gnu&linux distros
>  . sda6 8.5Gb Logical Partition for linux-swap
>
> Ok so i am not sure that virtual machines use real partitions, I'm
> completely clueless about that.  I do think that Xp is worth having
> installed somewhere and it would be remiss to miss out on having
> Windows7 somewhere just to see what its like (assuming you don't have to
> pay a huge fortune to just try it out) - or at least have a decent space
> for it for later.
>
> The main reason for setting up sda2 & sda3 in this scenario is to keep
> all the numbering neat and in the same order as the partitions appear on
> the drive.  Sometimes i get a bit excessive about tidiness like that.
>
> That is just my thoughts tho.  You might well have a better plan :)
>
> Anyway, thanks for the link to the SSD article :)
> Good luck and regards from
> Tom :)
>
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