well; I have like 15-20+ distros on this PC at any time
so I couldn't have a /home, and whatever without having alot of issues
I just put everything under / when I install any distro
you can see to the left some of them<
heres my fdisk -l for this PC
note that its a mess and not a good example
Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00061093
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 79 634536 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 9869 20023 81570037+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 80 4895 38684520 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 4896 9868 39945622+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 19741 20023 2273166 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 9869 14877 40234729+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 14878 15750 7012341 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 17407 19740 18747823+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 15751 17406 13301788+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000374f1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 9320 74862868+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 * 9321 9729 3285292+ 83 Linux
Note that sda3 & beyond are all logical partitions within the extended partition
you can have many logical partitions inside a extended partition
so, if your just gonna install Ubuntu and you want /home, etc you gotta redo
your 80GB you initially had for ubuntu
or just make it so
80GB XP NTFS?
75GB Ubuntu EXT3 or EXT4
2GB swap