Just make one partition, like 60GB(recommended), and the install script will do the rest.

mine one are like this

/ - 10GB, or more, depending on you if you wanted to install more stuff later on
/swap - same size like your physical ram, or around that
/home - up to you, your "personal" storage area

and other /tmp, etc..but not really necessary much, unless you got much disk space to spare

so,i just make home right???coz i think i cant get fully permission to open some files n move pic to background files in filesystem....

yes,i know must login as root...but just wanna move some picture to use as login background...

I thought the install script will do everything?

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Added on December 31, 2010, 7:05 pm
No no no, 1 partition, and the script will do the other partition itself based on the partition size, inside of that partition.

oh..i see...thx 4 ur info...look like i need to reformat back my ubuntu tonight...

i also do what gamesky do... / one partition,n the rest is home partition...

i not use swap coz i think my 2gb ram already necessary...

Eh, you can do that? I thought swap partition is a must. D:

I have two partitions for Ubuntu home and root. For Fedora, I use only one partition. But creating a separate partition for home dir is a good idea. Comes handy when something goes wrong with your OS.

Well it is a magical property of swap space, because extra RAM doesn't allow you to replace unused memory with often used memory. The theory holds true no matter how much RAM you have. Swap can improve performance. It can be trivially demonstrated.

the speed of hard disks doesn't grow anywhere near as fast as the size of memory and applications. This means that over the last years, swapping in any particular application has gotten SLOWER than it used to be ... This means that even though the VM is way smarter than it used to be, the visibility of any wrong decision has increased.

so,i just make home right???coz i think i cant get fully permission to open some files n move pic to background files in filesystem....

yes,i know must login as root...but just wanna move some picture to use as login background...

Eh, you can do that? I thought swap partition is a must. D:

I have two partitions for Ubuntu home and root. For Fedora, I use only one partition. But creating a separate partition for home dir is a good idea. Comes handy when something goes wrong with your OS.

If you think your 2GB is enough, think again.
http://kerneltrap.org/node/3202

ok,thx 4 ur info...  

so,how much i've spend to use as swap partiton??

ok,thx 4 ur info...  

so,how much i've spend to use as swap partiton??

u mean u logout>login as root>copy file>logout again>login ur account? 
if u have alot of ram, u can shrink ur swap partition and use swappiness=0 

sos: What is swappiness and how do I change it?

Usually you need to double the number of your RAM, i.e., 2GB RAM = 4GB Swap. If I'm not mistaken though.

u mean u logout>login as root>copy file>logout again>login ur account?