[PLUG] Linux + XP dual boot

[Abhijit Paithankar]

I would recommend something slightly different.

Again, leaving aside whatever you need for XP,

1-2 GB for swap. Ideally swap should be twice the size of your RAM and
on a 32-bit machine it doesn't make sense to have it larger than 4G.
On a 64bit system, depending on how busy your machine is going to be,
it could easily be anything around 6-10G.

Everything else goes to /. All in a single file system.

This configuration usually works out to be the best for personal computers.
LVM makes it really hard to rescue any data if your disk crashes.

Abhijit

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Arun Khan <knura at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 Mar 2008, Sonawane Satish wrote:
>  > Now I wish to have OpenSuse10.3 + WinXP on new
>  > machine(Core2 duo, 1GB RAM, 160 GB SATA).
>  > Could anybody recommend appropriate partition scheme?
>
>  Leaving aside whatever you need for XP.
>
>  Slice the hard disk into:
>  10-15 GB for / depending on how many programs you want to install.
>
>  1-2GB for swap.
>
>  The rest of the disk into 10GB slices for LVM PE.
>
>  Put /home on a LVM.
>
>  HTH,
>  -- Arun Khan
>
>
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