Partitioning help: what would you do?

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost>]

I have this ancient Thinkpad with a 75 GB hard drive and Windows 7,
with 46 GB taken and 29 GB free. Half of those 46 GB are programs and
half are data.

I could take a bit of junk out and free, maybe, another 10 GB.

There's no point replicating data across OS's, so I was thinking of
mounting %DEFAULTUSERPROFILE% to /home/user/documents after installing
NetBSD.

I am not sure if I should create an additional partition to store
common data or should I simply mount the NTFS partition and then
proceed as above.

In other words, I would have:
1) A Windows recovery partition;
2) Windows (base system + programs)
3) NetBSD (with its slices)
4) An msdos partition to hold common data.

Is this a good partition scheme?

Another question: if I make two swap files in two different
partitions, would I be able to mount both from NetBSD? (one of the
pagefiles would be on the NTFS partition, the other on the msdos
partition).

Thanks

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Ottavio