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I'm about to install a new and clean development environment. To accomplish that, I would like a Windows operating system (possibly Windows 7) and a Ubuntu one (possibly the most recent, 10.04). To allow sharing data between the two operating systems, I'm thinking to create a partition (workspace, for example) with using NTFS to format it and that be automatically mounted by Ubuntu.

In terms of the partitioning schema, how would be better to organize the previous mentioned partitions?

fixer1234
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Rui Gonçalves
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Partitions:

  (linux swap partition)
/ (root for linux)
/mnt/workspace  (shared partition for workspace)
/mnt/windows  (where windows is installed)

From windows, you'll see:

C:\  (windows instalation partition)
D:\  (workspace: drive letter might vary)

Depending on how you set it up, you may or may not be able to access your linux root partition. But if all that has is linux program files, this won't matter.

Note: it is worth considering making /home/ a separate partition as well, so it can be accessed from windows.

David Oneill
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