Using Linux

I’ve been planning on doing some reorganization of my hard disk partitions for quite a while now. The occasion of the release of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn will prompt me to actually get it done.

I think I will do it this way on the 40GB IDE drive:

• hda1 Windows XP
• hda2 /home (accessible by Windows with Ext2 IFS)
• hda3 Ubuntu
• hda4 openSUSE

I’ve got an old 4.3 GB IDE disk that I’ll use for a swap drive too.

The first step will be to move my current /home directory to a newly created /home partition as recommended by Pelo in #ubuntu. I found a guide to moving /home on the Ubuntu Blog. I’ll then be able to just reinstall an OS and point it to /home during the installation. I just hope it’s not that much hassle getting things like VMware set back up.

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