UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello masters,

Actually, i am user of Ubuntu, but I want to use Debian too.

I have a computer with a product key for w7 so i will use too, only for games...

The structure I have thought is the next with 1TiB of capacity.

Primary: 50 GB NTFS for W7
Extended:
Logical: 20 GB FAT32
Primary: SWAP 2GB (I have 6 GB of DDR2 RAM)
Primary: 20GB ext3 for / in Ubuntu
Extended:
Logical: 200GB ext3 /home of Ubuntu
Logical: 300GB ext3 /media/common (to share ubuntu and debian)
Primary: 20GB ext3 for / in Debian
Extended
Logical: 100GB for /home in Debian
Not Used: 200GB as ext3 for backups, not mounted partition.

What do you think about this? Is correct?...I would like read your comments.

Thank you very much

Alberto

and how about virtualisation? with something like virtualbox installed on windows and linux as virtual machines? so you won't mess with the disk and can play with every os you like to test...

Hello Duke,

now I use virtualization (with virtualbox) but I would like to access my hardware without virtualization, is quite different, for example with gpu.

WIndows7: for teaching reasons, games, etc.
Ubuntu: for test applications, and general use of my family
Debian: Only for me, I like its "stable way of life"
(sorry for my english)

Modern games require a lot of disk space, I would consider upping the windows partition to 75GB or 100GB. For your backup requirement, I would identify what can't be replaced and give yourself 2-3 times that to at least allow you to backup without overwriting your current backup. That way if you have a failure during your backup you don't lose both copies of your data. You could also consider removable media for backups. Blu Ray burners and media aren't overly expensive anymore. With online and offline storage, you could burn your old backup off to blu ray before overwriting your online storage, this way you could possibly reduce the size of your backup partition.