How much space for everything?

[david]

With my new system I'm getting, i'm gonna re-install and re-format EVERYTHING.
I'm gonna have a 20gb and a 15gb. my 20gb will be my "stable" hd, so I won't be messing with much once i get everything installed.
this is what I was planning.
20gb:
2gig win98(fat32)
2gig win2k(ntfs)
6gig win_misc(fat32)10gig linux(reiserfs)

15gig:
5gig linux_pkgs(ext2) rpm and/or deb
2gig backup(reiser)
rest = messing around space. testing distros etc.

I might change is around a bit, but mostly I'm wondering how I should partition the 10gb's for linux? the distros may change, but I'd like to keep the same partition table.
I think Mandrake can do this, but I'd like to know just in case.

Thanks!

[Siskmarek]

Just give all the hard drives to Linux. No Win2k needed. ='D

It really is your decision, but I just wanted to warn you that I've had some problems with Mandrake's repartitioning tool. Sure, it may be able to resize stuff without losing information, but I don't think it does a good job of tidying up the borders between linux native and windows native filesystems... because usually after I shuffle things around with the MDK repartitioning tool I get innumerable errors that just WON'T go away about how partition blah blah overlaps partition bleh bleh, etc.

My suggestion: Get Partition Magic. Size out all your partitions beforehand, then go under Mandrake and plug those mount points in! S'what I do. And it works for me! :D

~ Siskie

[Malakin]

If you have a fair bit of data you'd like to share between operating systems like mp3/videos whatever you might want to create one fairly large fat32 partition and put it all there since just about anything can read fat32.

[Slackmonster]

As much as I hate to say it...I'd give more space for your two bloatware operating systems. You'll find that if you use them with any kind of regularity that space will dwindle fast.

[Rob 'Feztaa' Park]

As far as switching distros and keeping info goes, make sure you have / on one partition, and /home on another. That's what I've done and it works great for me. I can switch the distro installed on /, and yet I get to keep all my files no matter how many times I may need to (re)install :)

[david]

Originally posted by singlemalt:
<STRONG>As much as I hate to say it...I'd give more space for your two bloatware operating systems. You'll find that if you use them with any kind of regularity that space will dwindle fast.</STRONG>

I'm trying to ween myself as much away from windows as possible though :) so if all my space goes, I'll have no choice but to use linux :)