First attempt at partitioning

[caerhays]

Hi all,

Two points I would like to make:

I'm a relative newbie but one thing i've learned is that there are space issues involved if you need/want to make "remasters" as back up copies of your system.  I think i'm right in saying that a remaster can't be bigger than ~4GB but if it approaches this size then it needs this amount of free space on the / partition to  remaster successfully. Correct me if i'm wrong ?.  So if you run tight on space you might not be able to remaster successfully.

Also, i'm a lover of Virtualbox for testing distros and I run a full Windows XP Pro install in vbox permanently for reference purposes (I repair Win PC's). My WinXP vdi takes up 9.2GB on my /home partition and the current PCLOS2010.2Beta takes up 2.4GB.
So my message here is if you use Vbox a lot you're going to need to allow space in your /home partition.

[YouCanToo]

Hi all,

Two points I would like to make:

I'm a relative newbie but one thing i've learned is that there are space issues involved if you need/want to make "remasters" as back up copies of your system.  I think i'm right in saying that a remaster can't be bigger than ~4GB but if it approaches this size then it needs this amount of free space on the / partition to  remaster successfully. Correct me if i'm wrong ?.  So if you run tight on space you might not be able to remaster successfully.

Also, i'm a lover of Virtualbox for testing distros and I run a full Windows XP Pro install in vbox permanently for reference purposes (I repair Win PC's). My WinXP vdi takes up 9.2GB on my /home partition and the current PCLOS2010.2Beta takes up 2.4GB.
So my message here is if you use Vbox a lot you're going to need to allow space in your /home partition.

Actually you can have Vbox run on any partition where you have room, all you need to do is point Vbox to where your .VDI file resides.

[menotu]

Actually you can have Vbox run on any partition where you have room, all you need to do is point Vbox to where your .VDI file resides.

Hi caerhays

As YouCanToo mentioned you can have your VDI's anywhere on your system. I have a folder on one of my backup HDDs to specifically backup my VDI's to. I can then copy them over to another partition whenever I want to re-use them in VBox.

Some VBox users (not you I'm sure   ) think that when they first create a VBox HDD and it asks to set a size - say 10GB - it will stay that size, but unless you install loads of apps or keep lots of data on it, in actuality the HDD size is normally far smaller than the 10GB set. Note: this applies when using the Dynamically Expanding Storage option when setting up the HDD