Partitioning of ubuntu 12.04 lts on Windows XP Hard Disk

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 lts on Windows XP. It was the first time that I had to install Ubuntu lts on Windows XP. the most troublesome part of the installation was the partitioning process.

My computer was originally divided into five disks: C, D, E, F, and G. I plan to use the last disk to install Ubuntu 12.04, then the preparation and Installation Process for installing Ubuntu 12.04 on the hard disk in XP are completed. Let's take a look at my final partition chart:

Ubuntu 12.04 dual-system installation on Windows XP Hard Disk

From sda5 to sda10, sda1 and sda11 are not displayed in the figure. This is the interface after my partition is complete, before partitioning, we only have sda1, sda5, sda6, sda7, and sda8, which correspond to C, D, E, F, and g disks respectively. We want to install Ubuntu 12.04 to G disks, next, let's talk about the partitioning process (this is just the partitioning process in this case, please make flexible adjustments according to your computer's situation, otherwise the entire hard disk will be discarded accidentally ~~) :

1. Select sda8 in the list (corresponding to our G disk and confirm that all data is backed up) and click the "delete" button below, in this way, the original size of the GB disk is available.

2. Select "Free Space" in the list and click the "add" button below. The "create new partition" window appears, (The type, mount point, and size shown in the preceding figure are used in, mount point, and capacity control respectively.) Swap does not have a mount point. After setting the space size, select "swap space" in the usage field, the mount point is automatically grayed out and disabled.

Ubuntu 12.04 dual-system installation on Windows XP Hard Disk

 

3. Divide the space to the root directory (/), swap, And/home in sequence according to step 2.

Note: If you select "primary partition" and "logical partition", you can select logical partition.

Partitioning principles of ubuntu

1. Boot partition:/boot 512 M is enough (I gave m here)

2. System partitioning:/install the system and software. I have 10 Gb space here.

3. Swap partition: swap is similar to Windows virtual memory. Generally, it is allocated twice the physical memory.

4. Personal File partitioning:/Home: How much do you want? like Windows's "My documents", the rest of the G disk space is given to it.

This articleArticleFrom the Linux community website (www.linuxidc.com) Original article: http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2012-04/59434.htm