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I am a former Windows user who has migrated to Linux (read Ubuntu) full time. Though in my PC I have kept the Windows partitions intact, I have bought a new Laptop whose hard disk I want to partition. Had it been Windows, I would have partitioned its 1 TB partition as follows:

Music - 250 GB
Videos - 550 GB
Important - 100 GB
Swap - 8 GB
OS - 23 GB

Now in Linux, I know the mount points for some,

OS - /
Home - /home

But I can't understand what mount points to set for Music, Videos and the Important partition containing family photos and documents. I'll be grateful, if anyone could shed some light on it.

Thanks
EG

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  1. You can leave your partitions as it was and just create a symbolic link to those music partition or any other ones in your home directory.
  2. During installation you can mount musics partition as /home/USERNAME/Musics
  3. After simple installation you can change your /etc/fstab and point /home/USERNAME/Musics to your musics partition. you can find a good information of how to do so from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab. And also there is a full manual available by typing man fstab in terminal.
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  • What do you mean by leave. I am not creating any partitions in windows. Can I create my own custom mount points?
    – aa8y
    Mar 1, 2013 at 5:56
  • Yes you can create your own custom mount points. Even before installation or after. By "leave" I mean just install your Ubuntu in One partition as you like, then adjust your mounting points. Mar 1, 2013 at 5:59
  • But then I I ever want to reinstall, then I'll lose all my data. If I have a separate partition mounted at / then I'll just have to format that partition before a new installation, right?
    – aa8y
    Mar 1, 2013 at 6:09
  • You won't loose any data. Edited my answer, check that. Mar 1, 2013 at 6:20

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