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spacePigeon

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Registered: 2008-07-01

Posts: 6

Partition scheme. Need advice.

I am trying to install Arch on a friends pc with current partition scheme:

sda1   primary   NTFS
sda5   logical      Fat
...
...
...
sda14  logical   Fat

primary/logical free space 800+GB

Currently he has no valuable data on sda5 - sda15 so my thought was to reclaim all of those into free space then do the following:

sda1  primary  NTFS
sda2  primary  Linux  /
sda5  logical    Linux/swap  swap
sda6  logical    Linux /home
sda7  logical    Fat
...
...
...
sdaN logical     Fat

This seems safe to me, any other thoughts??  Thanks

vertimyst

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From: Canada

Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 71

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Re: Partition scheme. Need advice.

Mm, I'd say it looks good.   I'm no expert, though.

I'm guessing sda1 is for Windows (dual-boot)?

Last edited by vertimyst (2008-12-13 00:14:16)

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kjon

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From: Temuco, Chile

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 398

Re: Partition scheme. Need advice.

why does he has a lot of fat32 partitions?. If I were you, I would install virtualbox or vmware on windows. When he feels a little bit confident, I would pick paragon partition manager to make room for a real linux install.
And about the partitioning, it depends mainly on the usage. If you have tons of ram, you don't need swap; If you don't have a server, /var doesn't need to be 'that' big, and so on. On my machines, a separate / and /home does the trick perfectly for me.

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spacePigeon

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Registered: 2008-07-01

Posts: 6

Re: Partition scheme. Need advice.

Yes it is a dual boot. Not sure why he chose such a partition scheme but partitioning is user preference. Did the suggested partition scheme and worked just fine, thanks for your replies!!!