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Re: How To: Partition your Hard Drive.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:48 pm
by sagirfahmid3
*facepalm*...I knew it, but forgot to tell that.

Re: How To: Partition your Hard Drive.

Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:11 am
by iain_j
Hello you very helpful people

I'm on the verge of wiping my Vista system and installing Mint, and I've been trawling this forum for tips, today in particular about partitioning. I would have left the installer to do its default, with a swap and / partition, but now I'm planning:

Swap - 4Gb (to allow hibernation)
/ - 10Gb (including /home)
Documents, Music, Pictures, etc. - sizes to be decided, to be mounted into appropriate folders under /home/iain

My question is, is there an equivalent in Linux of Windows' "users\all users" folder that I can mount partitions to? To start with there'll only be one user (me) but if I add any more I'd like them to have access to the Music partition without mapping into each user's home folder.

Re: How To: Partition your Hard Drive.

Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:09 pm
by sagirfahmid3
You can make the music folder so its readable by all users, no worries.

Re: How To: Partition your Hard Drive.

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:57 am
by iain_j
Thanks sagirfahmid3

What I'm trying to figure out, is where would be a logical place to mount such a partition? Firstly I was wondering if there's an "all users" folder under /home as per Windows, then I was going along the lines of mounting it under /media, until I read about anything here being under root ownership.

Apologies for my nooby ignorance, I'm used to putting everything somewhere within the Windows "users" folder.

Re: How To: Partition your Hard Drive.

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:13 pm
by sagirfahmid3
Hmm, then you would be better off just creating a separate partition for music (preferably NTFS because it's readable by both Windows and Linux--also because it has lesser file-system overhead, so you will have MORE disk space than you would if you used ext2/3/4 filesystem).

You could automount that NTFS partition after installing ntfs-config (sudo apt-get install ntfs-config). You must run the program as root.
Terminal> sudo ntfs-config

Make sure to check the box that says "readable" only (unless you want other users to use up space without your permission).

Re: How To: Partition your Hard Drive.

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 3:53 am
by Lord High Warlock
I hope it's alright to kinda hijack this thread...

I'm going to be installing Mint 13 on a 750GB hard drive (the Windows 7 partition will be entirely scrubbed) with 6GB of RAM. Should I just let Mint create its own partitions, or should I use a more specific configuration?

While I'm extremely familiar with Windows Partitions, I'm somewhat lacking in the Linux / Unix environments.