hda:
50mb /boot
30GB /windows xp
10GB /Slackware
10GB /Mepis
10GB /Testing
Swap on hdb with the windows pf.

Now I see. LOL!!

I've got my Slackware taking up 10 gigs then Ubuntu taking an other 10 gigs. And I have 1 600 mb swap partition. And I've got both of them sharing my /home directory which is 20 gigs. Ive also got a 20 gig Windows partition that I dont like to speak about very much.

i have a 60GB hard disk.

my linux(FC3) partition is 7GB.

I have about 310G in this machine, 40G in the laptop, 80G in my mom's machine (she runs only *nix), and a 60G in the server for backups of vital files.

All of my machines are single boot... so all their space goes to *nix. I had to select >100G as that's my main machine. And if you totaled it all up (and I make fair use of a lot of this space) it approaches 500G of space committed to *nix.

Then there are machines I maintain for other people but aren't under my direct control or providing network storage... average about 110G each.

So much disk space... it really is pathetic.

dev/hda1 21G 2.9G 18G 15% /mnt/hda1
/dev/hda6 15G 2.1G 13G 14% /mnt/hda6
/dev/hda7 10G 2.0G 8.1G 20% /mnt/hda7
/dev/hda8 10G 33M 10G 1% /mnt/hda8
/dev/hda9 24G 3.3G 20G 15% /mnt/hda9
/dev/hda5 2.0G /mnt/hda5

All linux! I have a 160GB drive and have alot of free space at the end. This is gonna change as I have settled on 2 distros I like and a reinstall is near.

Hello again.
If you can't see the poll results on this page (I can't), check http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ts&pollid=1055 out.

BTW, Mega Man X voted for <256M!!! Mega Man X, please tell us what distro do you use, etc. I am very intrigued!

I have Linux on my entire hard drive.

Dual booting of course; I have Linux (Kanotix) on a 100gb SATA drive and windows on a 120gb IDE drive; on my desktop.

My laptop is older and only has a 20 gb HD so it is split pretty much down the middle.

On my desktop - Gentoo resides on it's own 80Gb drive. Also have a third drive that I use to test drive other distros. Currently, is K/Ubuntu on there.
On the laptop - 10gig drive split 50/50 with WinMe

Sorry, i didn't read the first post. I give slightly more than 5 GB usually; but most of the time there are more than one distro on my poor notebook. Experimental part is about 4 GB, the one i use constantly is about 6 GB total, with seperate /usr, /home etc.

For what it's worth :

27+ GB - Fedora Core 3
5 GB - Suse 9.2
4 GB - Redhat 9.0
510 MB - Swap

is there any advantage of using a swap partition?

aldimeneira,
Of course there is.
Even if you have lots of ram, a swap partition (aka virtual memory / page file on Windows) helps you in some situations:
* If you have lots of memory-hungry programs running and have no swap, your machine will either lock-up or be slow as hell.
* If some program has a memory leak, it will use up all your ram and good-bye.
* The kernel is smart enough to move unused data from RAM to swap, so you get more memory for your needs

Finally:
* If you have <256M RAM, swap should be double the RAM (swap = 2 * ram)
* If you have >256M RAM, swap should be RAM + a few megs (swap = ram + 4M)
(you need those extra few megs if you want features like software suspend, etc.)