Install Mint into the 10g partition and make sure it boots. Then open gparted and partition the disk into two partitions one 10g one 30g (I will assume that your OS will call these partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 but if it decides on something different then alter the following commands accordingly). The best way to partition any disk is: OS Operating System disk: if it’s the boot system disk, let the operating system partition it during the installation. So in your case first copy any data that you want to keep somewhere else. Answer (1 of 6): Originally Answered: Which is best way partition 1tb hard disk KISS Keep It Super Simple, and don’t overthink it. Of course you do not have to take notice of anything I say, but if you feel of a mind to do so then I will tell you how I would go about it.
If you are talking about a new mp3 such as ones you download, then that data will only go where you tell your browser to put it, so you set the default download directory to /home/username/data and that is where it will go. Well what exactly do you mean? Existing mp3's? If so, you move those along with all your other data to the /data partition manually ( it only needs to be done once).
