Why GNU/Linux Rocks

[lxskllr]

I'm using 7gb of my / partition. I think 20gb is more than comfortable. Mint is basically Ubuntu, but different. I don't care much for Ubuntu's new Unity shell, but you may like it. Personally, if I stay with *buntu, I'll use Xubuntu, otherwise it'll be Debian, and Xfce for me. Anything from *buntu family, or Mint would be good for your purposes.

[sgreger1]

Like I said, I'm using a modified version of Linux Mint. Mint and Ubuntu are made for people use Windows. They're very easy to use.
I have a 1TB external hard drive with all my videos, pics, writings, and whatnots - all my media. Linux has no problem finding any of my media that may be on the Windows partition. However, Windows doesn't know what the hell a Linux is. So it doesn't work both ways as easily.

Okay if I can access stuff on my external hard drive from within linux than I am good to go and don't need to allocate so much space. Can I ask why you prefer mint over say the newest Ubunto 11.5? Is there any advantage to it or do you just prefer it's layout? I was looking at the new Ubuntu desktop from the newest release and it looks like a ****ing iphone or something lol.

[sgreger1]

200gb to / ??? That's a crapload of room. 20gb is more than reasonable. You need the room for data, not programs. You should be able to work with your Win server with Ubuntu. I'm not intimately familiar, so I can't give explicit advice, but it'll work.

Edit:
Btw, I'm using EXT4. for my file systems.

But if I set it at 20gb than doesn't that mean I can never install more than 20gb of software? That seems risky to me. If I set it at 20 can I ever expand it?

[AtreyuKun]

Like I said, I'm using a modified version of Linux Mint. Mint and Ubuntu are made for people use Windows. They're very easy to use.
I have a 1TB external hard drive with all my videos, pics, writings, and whatnots - all my media. Linux has no problem finding any of my media that may be on the Windows partition. However, Windows doesn't know what the hell a Linux is. So it doesn't work both ways as easily.

[lxskllr]

God damnit, I have everything else figured out and ready to go but the Ubuntu 11.5 ISO will not burn to any of the blank CD's I have. They just fail every time. Its under 700 mb so not sure what the issue is here. I am using Infracorder for it but not luck. I will try it tomorrow on a DVD, but I don't think space is the issue.


Ive also decided to partition it as such:

/r boot default of 258 mb
/ root 200GB (I plan on using a lot of space for programs)
SWAP 10gb. I have 10 gigs of ram so I doubt I would ever need to use swap and I know the old rule was 2x RAM for the swap allocation but i'm never going to use more than 20 gigs of ram so this should be more than enough
/home 100gb

I am being liberal because I have 5 TB of disc space so not sweating the numbers and dont want to have to go back later and try to expand it if I end up adopting Ubunto as my main OS.
Do these seem like safe numbers or am I allocating way too much space? Keep in mind I have a TB of shit on my HD already so I use a lot of space. I can set it up to access my files through a Homegroup via win 7 and just access the server from Ubunto, which theoretically should allow me to just access all of my pics I have stored in Win 7 that way, reducing the among of space I need to partition for /home. Hopefully that works out. My pictures and video take up half a TB already and I can't afford to make copies of all of that onto the ubunto partition. Am I wrong in assuming I can access the pics from win 7 once in Ubunto by setting up a shared folder on the homegroup? I read the tutorial and it seems legit.

200gb to / ??? That's a crapload of room. 20gb is more than reasonable. You need the room for data, not programs. You should be able to work with your Win server with Ubuntu. I'm not intimately familiar, so I can't give explicit advice, but it'll work.

Edit:
Btw, I'm using EXT4. for my file systems.