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Location: New Zealand , down here at the bottom of the world...
Distribution: Mandrake 9.1
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Partioion Questions
I just looked at my partitions with Disk Drake, and of my 28 GB hard drive, 5 gb is in / , 450 mb in swap , and 22 Gb in /home. Does that mean that 5 gb is for linux and 22 gb is for my programs and files?. When I install programs , will they go in the / partiton or the /home partition? If my new programs go into the / partition, then i want to make it bigger and the /home one smaller.
5 GB should be plenty for for all your programs, don't worry. If you compile programs (trees of which can be big), you can also do this in your "home" directory .
Location: New Zealand , down here at the bottom of the world...
Distribution: Mandrake 9.1
Posts: 35
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Ok, that't fine, just in windows 5 Gb would be nowhere near enough for all my programs, and 200 mb would probably be enough for my documents , but my video and music files um ... um..... 10 Gb?
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