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Originally Posted by ronald146m
Hi Alien
Sorry for the confusion. 
It was my post about partitions.
I deleted it when I saw Xpod's post, his is probably the most straightforward way to install Ubuntu. |
Aha! The phantom post deleter revealed!
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Originally Posted by ronald146m
If you do let Ubuntu have all the remaining space, you can easily shrink it down later and make another partition to use for something else if you like. (using Partition Manager or Ubuntu's 'gParted' utility).
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I don't want to give it the whole 102GB, I reckon 20 or 30 should be plenty for now.
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Originally Posted by ronald146m
In my deleted post I said that Ubuntu would set up 2 partitions in that space. One for Ubuntu proper and one for Ubuntu swap.
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You also said something about a 3rd 1.
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Originally Posted by ronald146m
The swap partition does what the page file does in Windows. It's often set at 1.5 times RAM, but that value isn't critical.
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6GB for swap?
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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler
I always put root & home on separate partitions, then you can reinstall if you bork the OS without losing your personal configuration files & data...
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I do something similar with Windows; I keep My Documents, My Pictures, music, email storage, etc on other partitions than the Windows 1.
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Originally Posted by dragon
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KDE certainly looks nicer than Gnome. What's the difference between using KDE with Ubuntu, & just using Kubuntu instead? Aside from not having to faff around in Kubuntu to set up KDE I mean.