What is the best way to partition a disk when installing 2+ OS?

Question

linux

There is a netbook, a hard drive of 320 GB.
Now there is Win7, but there is a need to install at least MeeGo. And in the future - maybe Ubuntu or something else =)
Please advise what is the best way to partition the disk for this? Ideally, I would like to have some kind of common partition where files accessible from both operating systems will be located.

Answer 1

MeeGo does not know how to ntfs and ext4 out of the box, so

• NTFS - Windows system and valuable files
• NTFS - Less valuable files that you want to be able to access from MeeGo
• vfat - a small partition for sharing files, you can use a flash drive instead
• MeeGo /, /boot and swap - after all, installers like to create a partition for it
• Allocate a larger partition for Ubuntu (ext4)

MeeGo is not yet suitable for work, so I would not bother with accessing Windows files from there. It’s better to start gaining experience with Ubuntu, and then attach NTFS and ext4 support to MeeGo, then you can work with Windows files on an NTFS partition.

Answer 2

2 partitions for Windows, /, swap, / home for tench

Answer 3

MeeGo, Ubuntu in virtual machine

Answer 4

1) Be sure to use the swap, because. under / tmp, normal people make tmpfs, and when it is large, it settles on the disk. 2) Only one swap partition is needed, because both OSes
can safely use the same partition :)
system to start with 15-20 gigabytes, under / home - 50 gigabytes. Slowly expand partitions according to current appetites.