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12-25-2004, 05:47 AM	#1
Vincentius LQ Newbie Registered: Mar 2003 Distribution: Debian 3.0r2 SuSE 9.0 professional Posts: 10 Rep:	Partition check, check double check I want to reorganise my 120 sata disk. My windows partition is taking too much space, and i really want to use linux as core. So i made a plan regarding the partitions to be used... Could you check this for me please? Is it OK? Or do I use too many partitions? sda1 - 7,0 Gb - NTFS - C:\ Windows XP SP2 sda2 - 85 Gb - Ext3 - software, mp3, etc. sda3 - ???? - Ext2 - /boot sda4 - 1,5 Gb - SWAP - /swap sda5 - 1,0 Gb - Ext3 - /usr sda7 - 2,0 Gb - Ext3 - /home sda8 - 10,0 Gb - Ext3 - / sda9 - 5,0 Gb - FAT32 - WinXP Ghost-image/ Backup Linux sda10 - 7,0 Gb - Ext3 - Testing At the end I want to uninstall windows and use vmware to use my informationmodelling tools (eg. FCO-IM) which isnt working with wine in linux :-( And also incidentally i play some games, which wont work too well in linux (YET) So could you please check this for me? TIA

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