What's an optimal distribution of partitions for Linux(mint16)?
I know almost any Linux user will say that it's a matter of opinion but I'm new to Linux and also fairly new to file systems. I'm just trying out Linux.
My idea was to give 8GB to LinuxOS, 8GB to swap, 256MB to boot, and 20GB to /home. All ext4 FS, except /home.
My PC is dual-booted with Win8, so I'd like to have a /home which is shared with Windows so I can access that drive (movies,documents etc.) from both OSes. The thing is that the you can't have a file system for /home that is supported by both OSes, am I right? I thought FAT32 was, but it seems it isn't, unfortunately.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
/home
, an option is to have another common partition that both OSs can access. This could be/share
for example on Linux, and be NTFS. Linux has good NTFS support these days, and Windows isn't bad at it either. This approach is only suitable for single user systems.