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I have a Fujitsu AH531 laptop with 320GB HDD.

Currently, I have 3 OS installed on it: Win7, Win8, Linux Mint14 and a bulk part for archiving my files.

Now I wanna allocate another part to commence an ArchLinux.(how much is the least size?)

Tell and guide me about boot and swap partition. Can I allocate just one 2GB partition for both of them? Or I should make separate partition for each of them?

Right now, I have to pass two boot loader and one restart cycle if I choose to login to Win7.

How to make a boot loader which I can choose one of the four in just one stage? Thanks in advance

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Minimum I would do for Arch is 15 - 20 (if using a GUI), but that's not accounting for a lot if you intend to do much there. Just use the swap from Linux Mint and don't worry about another boot partition for Arch. Is your hard drive formatted GUID or MBR? Depending on that, you may not even be able to do more... – nerdwaller Mar 4 at 4:00

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