Example Partition Layouts
Partitioning can be confusing if you've never done it before, so I've provided a few example partition layouts that should make things clearer. In all of these examples I've used a 100GB hard disk, but you can scale all the partition sizes up or down for your disk according to the advice in Varieties of Partitions in Editing Existing Partitions.
Standard Ubuntu-Only Installation
Only Ubuntu will be installed on the disk, so only the root and swap partitions are needed (Figure C-5). Since I have 4GB of RAM, I made the swap partition 4.2GB. The root partition filled up the rest of the disk space to give me as much room for files and programs as possible. (There was no need to partition the disk manually in this case; the ...
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