Thread: Hard Drive set up best pratices, how to, Vista & Ubuntu 9.10

hello all,

have been running ubunto 9.10 , love it.
orginally planning on using time time vmplayer , xp not sure if need dual boot @ all.

have 400 gb hard drive want give more hd space ubuntu after doing searching read linux should not huge. going resize using gparted, put vista 50gb, leave ubuntu along @ 67 gb. how can make left on 275gb both used data?


have hd set dual boot details below:

disk /dev/sda: 400.1 gb, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
disk identifier: 0x7a2e9344

device boot start end blocks id system
/dev/sda1 1 605 4853760 27 unknown
partition 1 not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 * 605 40125 317443136 7 hpfs/ntfs
partition 2 not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 40125 48641 68410440 5 extended
partition 3 not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5 40125 48288 65575408+ 83 linux
/dev/sda6 48289 48641 2834968+ 82 linux swap / solaris


tia.

-r

you won't have other creating 275gb ntfs partition. should accessible , writable both ubuntu , windows default.

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