Re: partitioning a new hard disk

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 05/21/2010 01:38 PM, roberto wrote:
> hello,
> a friend gave me a laptop (sony vaio) where i want to install debian
> squeeze (in dual boot);
> actually the disk is partitioned as follows (output from mount
> command, #'s are my comments):
>
> # total 82.25 GB 82.25 free, extended partition, ntfs
> /dev/sda2 on /media/VAIO type fuseblk
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
>
> # total 93.14 GB, 60.35 free, primary partition, ntfs
> /dev/sda5 on /media/VAIO_ type fuseblk
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
>
>
> how would you repartitionate the disk, since i have to leave a certain
> amount of space for Xp for other users ?
> i thought about installing debian next to the VAIO_ partition and then
> use the other partition VAIO for read and write

Which is the "real" XP partition, sda2 or sda5?

If nothing's on sda5, then that should be more than enough for a 
laptop install.

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