Re-Partitioning and Formatting Recommendations?

[Mooga]

So I ended up ordering a 1TB drive.
What I want to do is used the TB drive for data (NTFS because of large files) and re-partition my 600GB drive for multi-boot.

Any recommendations on what OSs and the size of the partitions?
Would you give programs their own install partition?

I'm considering at least 64-bit Vista and 64-bit Kubuntu. Should I also install the 64-bit Windows 7 Beta and 32-bit XP?

[Shadow00Caster]

Use grub for your boot and just use the partitioning built into ubuntu for partitioning the drive up, u can format it later with eachs respective installers.

Depending on what you want to do with the systems will define size for each partition.

Usually all my linux machines (vm's and whatnot) get like 5-10gb drives because all they do is run services like a lamp server or a spamfilter etc. My exchange server has a 40gb system partition with a 100gb storage on san for db's, my primary 40gb drive .. I tend to go with 40gb minimum for any windows install, it suffices for os and whatnot programs.

My desktop has two velociraptor 10k drives at 350gb each in a raid 0 (i dont store data on my desktop, its all on network storage) coming to like 500gb storage with performance due to striping.