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TheQuirk:

Master of Reality:
what happens if you let linux auto partition it? does it just make 1 bigass "/" partition?

Calum:
it tends to.

the autopartitioning in a normal GUI linux installer is not too bright. it's about as clever as the windows installer if you let it do stuff by itself in my opinion.

smokey:
Thanks for all the very helpful replies

My current box is set up (now) like this

250ish meg /boot/ (dont know why)
5gigish /
17gigish /home
30gig NTFS (from my previous windows backup drive)
10gigish /stuff folder which I can reduce to maybe try out another OS.

I am running Mandrake 9.0 and have the Nvidia drivers installed and working properly as well as WineX.

preacher:
Here is the easiest way to partition a linux box. Double the amount of ram for swap, and everything else for /.

In my case on my laptop, it was 256mb for swap, and the rest of the 3 gig linux section for root(/).

 This might not be the most secure way, but you dont have to worry about the complexity of multiple partitions. If you are running a webserver, you might consider running it off of a seperate partition for extra security. Also if you are going to have remote shell users, you will need a chrooted partition.

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