My Current System Config : 4 GB RAM 500 GB HDD After making it Dual boot : (Ubunty 9.10 with Windows 7 ) /dev/sda1 ntfs 13 gb /dev/sda2 ntfs 35 gb /dev/sda5 ext2 / 28.7 gb /dev/sda6 swap 5.7 gb /dev/sda7 ext3 /boot /dev/sda8 ext3 /home /dev/sda9 fat32 /data [ ] A little R&D I did : root '/' - Is that where all the linux installation files gets installed to? /boot - Should be mounted on a primary partition so that the BIOS can find it? /swap - Should be 2x RAM mounted on special swap file system? /home - Is this where I do all my work .i.e. documents, videos, pictures, FAT systems have no file permission functionality, which often leads to practical issues when sharing such partitions between Linux and Windows. the new NTFS-3g driver for Linux offers both read and write functionality on NTFS file system partitions. Swap Space : swap partition is like an extension of your RAM; it's used by the running system to temporarily park active