[ale] UPDATE: Re: speaking of KDE 4.1 and Ubuntu 8.10

[Robert Reese~]

Thank you Brian, Geoffrey, and Jim.  Here's what I ended up doing:

An OEM Vista and Recovery partitions totalling 188GB
a 100MB boot partition
a 6GB swap partition (I wanted something that could be divided in the future)
a 2GB /tmp
a 150GB / partition
a 200GB /home partition, 
a 50GB blank partition for a spare
a 350GB NTFS data partition
a blank 11+GB partition at the end

Interestingly, the recovery DVD set for the PC couldn't handle the 1TB SATA 
drive for whatever reason.  I had to use a 160GB ATA drive and transfer the 
image to the 1TB drive and resize the partitions to match the original specs.  
The Ubuntu disk had no problem with it whatsoever.

By the way, once my head cleared I found that I'd been a bit short-sighted about 
having both Ubuntu and Kubuntu on the same drive.  After I booted into Ubuntu, I 
just added KDE 4.  Doh!

Brian's find of a driver that allows Windows to read/write ext3 was an absolute 
jewel; one that has been sorely needed for years.  Excellent!   However, I do 
not trust Vista (or XP for that matter) with writing to ext3; I barely trust 
Linux to not damage my files on my NTFS partitions.  I'm getting there, slowly.

In the future I'd like to specify partitions and drives for all the different 
paths.  Until then, though, I'm quite pleased with the current setup.  I hope 
this helps others in the future, too.

I appreciate it, guys!
Robert~