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What size should my root partition be if I'd to use like a separate /home partition?

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http://askubuntu.com – I thought a basic layout would call for 3 partitions on the 160 GB hdd of my EEE netbook. It's got 1 GB RAM so I'll go with a swap partition the same size. The question is what size my / partition should be. I'd like to allocate the rest to the /home partition. I was told it neither matters if those are primary or logical nor if they're at the beginning or end of the disk. Can you second that? (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 02/12/2012 – Made popular on 02/12/2012

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Hey guys, I want to install Ubuntu alongside my Windows 7 OS.

I'm about to re-install my system. I like to keep a separate /home and / root partitions. I've been using (K)Ubuntu for around a year now and my / partition (almost 36Gb) never climbed over ~13Gb of used space.

What would you say is the appropriate maximum size one should set a / partition to?

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here is 12.10

partition is 2 swap-devs with size of each 16 Gibi and one dev with boot and one dev with main-partition for home.

I want to dissolve 1 swap-dev for to enlargen the home partition with additional 16 Gibi.

How do I do this correctly without risk of data-loss ?

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I had:

Software:

Dual boot with

Windows XP Ubuntu 10.04 LTS x32

Hardware

Fake RAID 1 (mirroring) with 2x1 TB:

Partition 1 - Windows Partition 2 - SWAP Partition 3 - / (root) Partition 4 - Extended Partition 5 - /home Partition 6 - /data

arek@domek:/var/log/installer$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525

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