ubuntu dual boot size?

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INFAMYBLADE

Discussion Starter · Nov 24, 2009

I was about to setup a dual boot mode on my dell here and it let me pick the size of the ubuntu installation from 3gig up to 30gigs. What is the point of this? smaller the size the less it installs or ?

Really confused about this, never seen that option on an install before

Sorry if it's something simple, I just am unsure what it'd be for. Never used this type of OS before.

thank you all in advance for the help. It's appreciated.

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Gizmo

· #2 · Nov 24, 2009

It's the size of the partition that Ubuntu will be installed on. If you've got a terabyte and a half of Caviar Black space, just do 30 gb. You probably won't ever use that much space, but it's not like it'll be doing anything else.

Regardless of this, you'll be getting the full install either way.

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INFAMYBLADE

Discussion Starter · #3 · Nov 24, 2009

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Originally Posted by Gizmo

I never even thought about that ( the partition ) i'm an idiot. I suppose it was the way it was worded with installation size that had me going

. thank ya very much

sadly, this drive in my dell is only a 320 though that was large back when I got it. I'm hoping to like Ubuntu enough to do away with windows entirely for my sig rig.

EDIT: and you actually have the case I plan on switching to from my cmstacker 830. still deciding on if I should try and sell it on here or not.

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gonX

· #4 · Nov 25, 2009

Get anything BUT JFS and stick with the 30GB partition. Should you ever need more space, you can always resize the partitions (most filesystems supports this, except for JFS and perhaps a few others)

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