Disk partitioning

[spacechimp]

My PC is about 2 years old. HDD is 250GB which is bigger than I really need since I don't download many videos. Anyway, it's partitioned into two parts, C ~ 2D, and C is half empty whilst D is totally empty, so I figure I might mess around installing Xubuntu or something onto D.

What I'm wondering is, since I won't really need more than about 15GB for my Linux workspace, whether I should grab the 15GB from D and then give the rest back to C, grab the 15GB from D and leave the disk partitioned into 3, or give the whole of D to my Linux installation. Does it even matter?

[Count-A-Strong]

Just buy an external hard drive. They're cheap as chips now.

[Woody23]

Install Linux on D. Keep C as is. Keeps it tidy.

[ChuckFickens]

Don't think that really addresses the question here Count.

Personally I would leave the C partition well alone unless there is a real pressing need to resize it, resizing a system partition always carries a risk and it's not something I'd do unless absolutely necessary.


Either install it onto D as it is, or resize D and install it onto a smaller 3rd partition if you want, neither of these risk anything on the C drive.

(or if you just want to play with linux and your machine is a reasonable speed then install it as a virtual machine under windows)

[spacechimp]

Working fine, thanks. :)