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Dennis Williamson
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I used to overdo the Partitioning thing in my good old windows days because I thought it might be more clear. One drive letter for a certain topic (e.g. Music, Pictures, Work etc.). But even there separating your data and the system already made sense: Should the system crash you can just format you system partition and reinstall without loosinglosing all your data.

Unix like systems and Ubuntu don't have drive letters, partitions just get mounted in any empty folder. So the thing that actually makes sense in my eyes is:

  • Create a system partition for the actual sytemsystem installation
  • Create a partition for your home directory. Easy to backup and since almost all programs keep the settings there you can reinstall/upgrade your system without loosinglosing much in a short time.
  • Create a swap partition (usually works better than a swap file)
  • As Babu already said create a boot partition if the Bootloader doesn't support your systems partition format.

Imho more than 4 separate partitions don't make sense in Ubuntu (4 is the maximum number of primary partitions you can create) - it's just a matter of personal preference.

I used to overdo the Partitioning thing in my good old windows days because I thought it might be more clear. One drive letter for a certain topic (e.g. Music, Pictures, Work etc.). But even there separating your data and the system already made sense: Should the system crash you can just format you system partition and reinstall without loosing all your data.

Unix like systems and Ubuntu don't have drive letters, partitions just get mounted in any empty folder. So the thing that actually makes sense in my eyes is:

  • Create a system partition for the actual sytem installation
  • Create a partition for your home directory. Easy to backup and since almost all programs keep the settings there you can reinstall/upgrade your system without loosing much in a short time.
  • Create a swap partition (usually works better than a swap file)
  • As Babu already said create a boot partition if the Bootloader doesn't support your systems partition format.

Imho more than 4 separate partitions don't make sense in Ubuntu (4 is the maximum number of primary partitions you can create) - it's just a matter of personal preference.

I used to overdo the Partitioning thing in my good old windows days because I thought it might be more clear. One drive letter for a certain topic (e.g. Music, Pictures, Work etc.). But even there separating your data and the system already made sense: Should the system crash you can just format you system partition and reinstall without losing all your data.

Unix like systems and Ubuntu don't have drive letters, partitions just get mounted in any empty folder. So the thing that actually makes sense in my eyes is:

  • Create a system partition for the actual system installation
  • Create a partition for your home directory. Easy to backup and since almost all programs keep the settings there you can reinstall/upgrade your system without losing much in a short time.
  • Create a swap partition (usually works better than a swap file)
  • As Babu already said create a boot partition if the Bootloader doesn't support your systems partition format.

Imho more than 4 separate partitions don't make sense in Ubuntu (4 is the maximum number of primary partitions you can create) - it's just a matter of personal preference.

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I used to overdo the Partitioning thing in my good old windows days because I thought it might be more clear. One drive letter for a certain topic (e.g. Music, Pictures, Work etc.). But even there separating your data and the system already made sense: Should the system crash you can just format you system partition and reinstall without loosing all your data.

Unix like systems and Ubuntu don't have drive letters, partitions just get mounted in any empty folder. So the thing that actually makes sense in my eyes is:

  • Create a system partition for the actual sytem installation
  • Create a partition for your home directory. Easy to backup and since almost all programs keep the settings there you can reinstall/upgrade your system without loosing much in a short time.
  • Create a swap partition (usually works better than a swap file)
  • As Babu already said create a boot partition if the Bootloader doesn't support your systems partition format.

Imho more than 4 separate partitions don't make sense in Ubuntu (4 is the maximum number of primary partitions you can create) - it's just a matter of personal preference.