Partition layout for dual booting halp

Nuuppanaani · (This post was last modified: 07-15-2014, 06:20 PM by Nuuppanaani.)

So I'm gonna do a clean installation of OS's on my puter and I have a few questions on the partition layout and just want to hear all of you guys' general opinions on things.

I use Windows for gaming and Linux for everything else and I really need them both. Booting between them is not really gonna be a problem because I have a fast ssd. Windows is the one of these that needs the most storage space because of all the GAAAEMS (praise Lord Gaben). On the other hand Linux really doesn't need that much storage space, I don't use it for gaming and all the media is going to be saved on Windows' partitions because both OS's can access them.

my current setup:
8GB DDR3 1333 MHz RAM
Plextor M5P 128 GB SSD (fastest drive I have, going to dedicate it for the OS's)
Western Digital Blue 500GB HDD (fairly new and somewhat fast)
Samsung blah 500GB HDD (old and slow as fak)

So what I want to install is Windows 7 home premium x64 & Linux Mint x64
(Not 100% sure about the distro yet, feel free to give ideas)

My plan thus far:

Drive 1: (the ssd, 119.24 GB of fast storage available)
Partition 1: 100 MB ntfs System Restore for Windows
Partition 2: 100 GB ntfs C: partition for Windows
Partition 3: 19 GB ext4 / partition for Linux

Drive 2: (the faster hdd, 465.76 GB of average speed storage)
Partition 1: 449 GB ntfs D: partition for Windows
Partition 2: 16 GB swap swap partition for Linux (how big should this be?)

Drive 3: (the slower hdd, 465.76 GB of fairly slow storage)
Partition 1: 300 GB ntfs F: partition for Windows
Partition 2: 165 GB ext4 /home partition for Linux

Feel free to post the most craziest of ideas below Smile

thx!
- Nuup

Chibill · 07-15-2014, 05:52 PM

I would use Linux for everything as it can run most games and is much faster then windows but yeah I think your disk layout is good.

Nuuppanaani · 07-15-2014, 05:55 PM

(07-15-2014, 05:52 PM)Chibill Wrote: I would use Linux for everything as it can run most games and is much faster then windows but yeah I think your disk layout is good.

The games I've tryed on linux so far have been shitty ports and ran at way smaller framer8s than on Vindos.

Also I've got addicted to Tribes Ascend again and that's a Vindos exclusive xD

(07-15-2014, 05:52 PM)Chibill Wrote: most games

eh..

Chibill · 07-15-2014, 08:11 PM

Did you have wine installed? Wine makes windows programs work on Linux by servering the windows based system calls to the program.

tyler569 · 07-15-2014, 08:43 PM

WINE is not perfect, especially so for intensive applications like games.

Nuuppanaani · 07-15-2014, 09:47 PM

(07-15-2014, 08:11 PM)Chibill Wrote: Did you have wine installed? Wine makes windows programs work on Linux by servering the windows based system calls to the program.

I can't run modern games on wine with decent framerate :/

AFtExploision · 07-15-2014, 11:09 PM

3 Window drives? I'm not sure what swap does, pretty sure you don't need 16GB of it

Chibill · 07-15-2014, 11:59 PM

Swap is where linux can move parts of RAM's data that are not inuse to make room for more data.

tyler569 · 07-16-2014, 03:16 AM

I doubt you'll neef twice your RAM again in swap space, unless you have some specific reason to want a lot of swap you're probably fine with 4-8gigs of swap. On the other hand, having more doesn't hurt if you don't mine the space.

EDevil · 07-16-2014, 08:09 AM

What i would do is have 3 partitions on your SSD;

Windows (~100GB)
Linux (~20GB)
Swap (~8GB)

Then RAID 1 your 2 HDD's and put one main Data partition on it to share your documents and important stuff (VM's, ISOS, downloads, games).

Yet again, personal preference right here ^ Your layout works just fine as well.

Nuuppanaani · 07-17-2014, 09:22 AM

(07-16-2014, 08:09 AM)EDevil Wrote: What i would do is have 3 partitions on your SSD;

Windows (~100GB)

Linux (~20GB)

Swap (~8GB)

Then RAID 1 your 2 HDD's and put one main Data partition on it to share your documents and important stuff (VM's, ISOS, downloads, games).

Yet again, personal preference right here ^ Your layout works just fine as well.

This is not a bad layout at all, but I do have a few problems with it.
First of all wouldn't the swap partition burn a hole on my ssd?
Also I need all the storage space I can have so RAID 1 isn't really an option, and wouldn't that make the faster hdd bottlenecked by the slower one?

EDevil · 07-17-2014, 11:51 AM

(07-17-2014, 09:22 AM)Nuuppanaani Wrote:
(07-16-2014, 08:09 AM)EDevil Wrote: What i would do is have 3 partitions on your SSD;

Windows (~100GB)

Linux (~20GB)

Swap (~8GB)

Then RAID 1 your 2 HDD's and put one main Data partition on it to share your documents and important stuff (VM's, ISOS, downloads, games).

Yet again, personal preference right here ^ Your layout works just fine as well.

This is not a bad layout at all, but I do have a few problems with it.
First of all wouldn't the swap partition burn a hole on my ssd?
Also I need all the storage space I can have so RAID 1 isn't really an option, and wouldn't that make the faster hdd bottlenecked by the slower one?

If you use a shitload of your swap constantly, then indeed moving it to your HDD might be a better idea. And yeah, it would bottleneck the faster HDD. But is that slower HDD that slow then? Tongue

Nuuppanaani · 07-17-2014, 02:43 PM

(07-17-2014, 11:51 AM)EDevil Wrote: But is that slower HDD that slow then?

Yeah, it is.

jxu · 07-22-2014, 03:09 AM

(07-15-2014, 05:52 PM)Chibill Wrote: I would use Linux for everything as it can run most games and is much faster then windows but yeah I think your disk layout is good.

>Linux
>Games

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