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dose anyone think this was a bad move,i dont have any problems,evrything is running fast and smooth,just wondering what other people think, any answers appreciated thanks
The price of HDD capacity is constantly falling with the result that having enough space, as long as you have the standard price of a new HDD, is not usually a problem.
Ask yourself, what am I to put in that space, and what else could I use it for? You could play with more than one linux; you have room for several. Don't you really miss Windows?
As far as partitioning goes, I like to have a "/home" partition, but tastes differ.
You don't have to worry. It isn't that Mint is going to wander around and get lost in all those gigabytes.
Last edited by thorkelljarl; 12-18-2010 at 02:32 PM.
If Mint is here installed in the same manner as Ubuntu is installed following the standard partitioning proposal presented by the installer, there is swap and one partition with Mint on the whole rest of the HDD. It is big.
Last edited by thorkelljarl; 12-18-2010 at 05:53 PM.
he means type into a terminal, as root
fdisk -l
thats a little L
fdisk -list partitions
Code:
[root@nfluxos guest]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 164.7 GB, 164696555520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders, total 321672960 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00061093
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 1269134 634536 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 158529420 321669494 81570037+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 1269135 78638174 38684520 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 78638175 158529419 39945622+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 317123163 321669494 2273166 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 158529546 238999004 40234729+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 238999068 253023749 7012341 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 279627453 317123099 18747823+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 253023813 279627389 13301788+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000374f1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 63 105675569 52837753+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 * 127315125 156296384 14490630 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 105675570 127315124 10819777+ 83 Linux
dont use my scheme as example as I'm just lazy and leave it this way because I should have made sda4 extended and had 123 as primry but have never changed it since I installed Ubuntu 8.04 way back
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