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I am wanting to re-partition my hard drive so I can have two partitions one that has Win xp installed on it. And the 2nd which will have ubantu.. There is two hard drive in which I want to do this to. a 37 Gig and a 20 gig...

I know in the Ubantu boot up disk it has a Gnome Partition tool. lets you resize and move partitions. I just don't know what size I should make the Win xp partition .. or the Ubantu partition. Any ideas?

1) you should have atleast 2 partitions for linux. 1 for swap, 1 for everything else. and if you want, you can even have /home/ on a separate partition
2) i have ubuntu installed n a 10gb partition with 512mb swap. its so small cuz i'm tight on space. for you i suggest 1gb swap and atleast 10gb file system.

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
1gb swap and atleast 10gb file system.

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whats Swap for? is that to go between Ubantu and Xp?

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Originally posted by banky

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
1gb swap and atleast 10gb file system.

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whats Swap for? is that to go between Ubantu and Xp?

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like windows swap file, its used as virtual ram. so the less ram you have, the larger swap should be. you dont need anything special to transfer files between oss because ubuntu automatically mounts ntfs partitions but are read-only (fat doesnt have this problem). all you have to do it install ntfs-3g to enable writing. and in windows you just need to install http://www.fs-driver.org/ and you can mount ext2/3 as normal hard disks.

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
like windows swap file, its used as virtual ram. so the less ram you have, the larger swap should be. you dont need anything special to transfer files between oss because ubuntu automatically mounts ntfs partitions but are read-only (fat doesnt have this problem). all you have to do it install ntfs-3g to enable writing. and in windows you just need to install http://www.fs-driver.org/ and you can mount ext2/3 as normal hard disks.

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Thanks, i'll look into that.. and let you know how it goes;]