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I got an Acer Aspire 5 with 8GB RAM and 1TB HD, and I need some advice of how to part my memory, today running Fedora and Windows on Dual boot, I bought a 250GB Samsung EVO 970 SSD to install Ubuntu and stop using Fedora (didn't get used to it).
What do I have in mind:
- Keeping at least 500GB for Windows, because I need to use Adobe programs on it, I am not used to Gimp or Inkscape yet. And run Visual Studio once in a while for little projects. As my laptop is not a powerhouse I am forced to use windows as a host.
- The SSD will be used only for Ubuntu, but I would like to use half of the HD to keep bigger files and such.
- If possible I'd like to use the HD as home partition and easily access it.
Could you help me? I'd love to see real numbers of how would you make you partitions, e.g. 90GB for root, 150GB for home, 4GB for swap...
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I got an Acer Aspire 5 with 8GB RAM and 1TB HD, and I need some advice of how to part my memory, today running Fedora and Windows on Dual boot, I bought a 250GB Samsung EVO 970 SSD to install Ubuntu and stop using Fedora (didn't get used to it).
What do I have in mind:
- Keeping at least 500GB for Windows, because I need to use Adobe programs on it, I am not used to Gimp or Inkscape yet. And run Visual Studio once in a while for little projects. As my laptop is not a powerhouse I am forced to use windows as a host.
- The SSD will be used only for Ubuntu, but I would like to use half of the HD to keep bigger files and such.
- If possible I'd like to use the HD as home partition and easily access it.
Could you help me? I'd love to see real numbers of how would you make you partitions, e.g. 90GB for root, 150GB for home, 4GB for swap...
boot dual-boot grub2 partitioning ssd
asked 8 hours ago
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Put Ubuntu on one disk (the whole thing), and Windows on the other disk (the whole thing). Whichever OS you want to be faster, put that one on the SSD. RAM is plentiful enough where swap will almost never be used and it only wastes space to break things up into partitions. The only partition you might want to set up separately would be your /home partition in Ubuntu and that is just for ease of keeping the data there intact in case you want to reinstall Ubuntu or replace with a different distro. Don't over think it.
– Nmath
8 hours ago
as Nmath said it is simpler to keep a separate drive for an OS. However you are not forced to. You can re-partition the HDD to be 2x500GB, and keep windows on one partition and keep the second one as "data" Then if you boot from SSD you can mount windows partitions (as long as they are not encrypted) I find ubuntu quite light, so you can even keep it on the HDD, and while it will be somewhat slower that might not be annoyingly so. In fact, you can install both systems on the SSD (separate partitions are advised) and use the HDD as a shared data.
– Dr Phil
7 hours ago
1
All Acer with UEFI need "trust" setting after install. Acer Aspire E15 will not dual boot, many details Trust settings in step 35 askubuntu.com/questions/627416/… Most Acer need UEFI update & if SSD firmware update.
– oldfred
7 hours ago
You may find this answer useful.
– user68186
4 hours ago
add a comment |
I got an Acer Aspire 5 with 8GB RAM and 1TB HD, and I need some advice of how to part my memory, today running Fedora and Windows on Dual boot, I bought a 250GB Samsung EVO 970 SSD to install Ubuntu and stop using Fedora (didn't get used to it).
What do I have in mind:
- Keeping at least 500GB for Windows, because I need to use Adobe programs on it, I am not used to Gimp or Inkscape yet. And run Visual Studio once in a while for little projects. As my laptop is not a powerhouse I am forced to use windows as a host.
- The SSD will be used only for Ubuntu, but I would like to use half of the HD to keep bigger files and such.
- If possible I'd like to use the HD as home partition and easily access it.
Could you help me? I'd love to see real numbers of how would you make you partitions, e.g. 90GB for root, 150GB for home, 4GB for swap...
boot dual-boot grub2 partitioning ssd
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I got an Acer Aspire 5 with 8GB RAM and 1TB HD, and I need some advice of how to part my memory, today running Fedora and Windows on Dual boot, I bought a 250GB Samsung EVO 970 SSD to install Ubuntu and stop using Fedora (didn't get used to it).
What do I have in mind:
- Keeping at least 500GB for Windows, because I need to use Adobe programs on it, I am not used to Gimp or Inkscape yet. And run Visual Studio once in a while for little projects. As my laptop is not a powerhouse I am forced to use windows as a host.
- The SSD will be used only for Ubuntu, but I would like to use half of the HD to keep bigger files and such.
- If possible I'd like to use the HD as home partition and easily access it.
Could you help me? I'd love to see real numbers of how would you make you partitions, e.g. 90GB for root, 150GB for home, 4GB for swap...
boot dual-boot grub2 partitioning ssd
boot dual-boot grub2 partitioning ssd
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Put Ubuntu on one disk (the whole thing), and Windows on the other disk (the whole thing). Whichever OS you want to be faster, put that one on the SSD. RAM is plentiful enough where swap will almost never be used and it only wastes space to break things up into partitions. The only partition you might want to set up separately would be your /home partition in Ubuntu and that is just for ease of keeping the data there intact in case you want to reinstall Ubuntu or replace with a different distro. Don't over think it.
– Nmath
8 hours ago
as Nmath said it is simpler to keep a separate drive for an OS. However you are not forced to. You can re-partition the HDD to be 2x500GB, and keep windows on one partition and keep the second one as "data" Then if you boot from SSD you can mount windows partitions (as long as they are not encrypted) I find ubuntu quite light, so you can even keep it on the HDD, and while it will be somewhat slower that might not be annoyingly so. In fact, you can install both systems on the SSD (separate partitions are advised) and use the HDD as a shared data.
– Dr Phil
7 hours ago
1
All Acer with UEFI need "trust" setting after install. Acer Aspire E15 will not dual boot, many details Trust settings in step 35 askubuntu.com/questions/627416/… Most Acer need UEFI update & if SSD firmware update.
– oldfred
7 hours ago
You may find this answer useful.
– user68186
4 hours ago
add a comment |
1
Put Ubuntu on one disk (the whole thing), and Windows on the other disk (the whole thing). Whichever OS you want to be faster, put that one on the SSD. RAM is plentiful enough where swap will almost never be used and it only wastes space to break things up into partitions. The only partition you might want to set up separately would be your /home partition in Ubuntu and that is just for ease of keeping the data there intact in case you want to reinstall Ubuntu or replace with a different distro. Don't over think it.
– Nmath
8 hours ago
as Nmath said it is simpler to keep a separate drive for an OS. However you are not forced to. You can re-partition the HDD to be 2x500GB, and keep windows on one partition and keep the second one as "data" Then if you boot from SSD you can mount windows partitions (as long as they are not encrypted) I find ubuntu quite light, so you can even keep it on the HDD, and while it will be somewhat slower that might not be annoyingly so. In fact, you can install both systems on the SSD (separate partitions are advised) and use the HDD as a shared data.
– Dr Phil
7 hours ago
1
All Acer with UEFI need "trust" setting after install. Acer Aspire E15 will not dual boot, many details Trust settings in step 35 askubuntu.com/questions/627416/… Most Acer need UEFI update & if SSD firmware update.
– oldfred
7 hours ago
You may find this answer useful.
– user68186
4 hours ago
1
1
Put Ubuntu on one disk (the whole thing), and Windows on the other disk (the whole thing). Whichever OS you want to be faster, put that one on the SSD. RAM is plentiful enough where swap will almost never be used and it only wastes space to break things up into partitions. The only partition you might want to set up separately would be your /home partition in Ubuntu and that is just for ease of keeping the data there intact in case you want to reinstall Ubuntu or replace with a different distro. Don't over think it.
– Nmath
8 hours ago
Put Ubuntu on one disk (the whole thing), and Windows on the other disk (the whole thing). Whichever OS you want to be faster, put that one on the SSD. RAM is plentiful enough where swap will almost never be used and it only wastes space to break things up into partitions. The only partition you might want to set up separately would be your /home partition in Ubuntu and that is just for ease of keeping the data there intact in case you want to reinstall Ubuntu or replace with a different distro. Don't over think it.
– Nmath
8 hours ago
as Nmath said it is simpler to keep a separate drive for an OS. However you are not forced to. You can re-partition the HDD to be 2x500GB, and keep windows on one partition and keep the second one as "data" Then if you boot from SSD you can mount windows partitions (as long as they are not encrypted) I find ubuntu quite light, so you can even keep it on the HDD, and while it will be somewhat slower that might not be annoyingly so. In fact, you can install both systems on the SSD (separate partitions are advised) and use the HDD as a shared data.
– Dr Phil
7 hours ago
as Nmath said it is simpler to keep a separate drive for an OS. However you are not forced to. You can re-partition the HDD to be 2x500GB, and keep windows on one partition and keep the second one as "data" Then if you boot from SSD you can mount windows partitions (as long as they are not encrypted) I find ubuntu quite light, so you can even keep it on the HDD, and while it will be somewhat slower that might not be annoyingly so. In fact, you can install both systems on the SSD (separate partitions are advised) and use the HDD as a shared data.
– Dr Phil
7 hours ago
1
1
All Acer with UEFI need "trust" setting after install. Acer Aspire E15 will not dual boot, many details Trust settings in step 35 askubuntu.com/questions/627416/… Most Acer need UEFI update & if SSD firmware update.
– oldfred
7 hours ago
All Acer with UEFI need "trust" setting after install. Acer Aspire E15 will not dual boot, many details Trust settings in step 35 askubuntu.com/questions/627416/… Most Acer need UEFI update & if SSD firmware update.
– oldfred
7 hours ago
You may find this answer useful.
– user68186
4 hours ago
You may find this answer useful.
– user68186
4 hours ago
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I have 1 TB HDD and 512 GB Samsung 960 Pro SSD.
The 1 TB essentially a brick but all 1,000 GB are allocated to a sing Windows NTFS partition. When Windows games are installed (60GB each) they go to HDD but are copied to SSD when it's time to play them for a few weeks / months.
The SSD has 400 GB for Windows 10 and the remaining 100 GB for two Ubuntu 16.04 partitions (20GB and 45GB), one Ubuntu 18.04 partition 25GB and one 10 GB partition for all four OS's to share.
The shared partition is primarily used to store bash scripts used in both Windows 10 WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and the three Ubuntu distros. Occasionally screenshots and other graphics are placed there. The shared partition is in NTFS format because Windows 10 can't read/write ext4 Linux partitions. Linux on the other hand can read/write NTFS partitions with no problem (well very few anyway).
I don't believe in separate /boot or /home partitions but I understand many do and I don't fault them for it. I put everything in / so I don't have to micro manage storage allocation between /, /boot and /home.
What gives me peace of mind is every day important files are backed up off-site automatically using cron to cloud. Maybe once a year I'll use gparted to make some partitions larger and some smaller.
If you can set it up such that the HDD is used to store all your projects and the project you are currently working on for a few days/weeks/months is transferred to SSD then I think that is the best.
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I would suggest the following setup for a single user desktop:
SSD:
- 1a. Windows. Whole disk -/- 25 Gb.
- 2a. Ubuntu. 25 Gb. 20Gb for / and 5 Gb for /home/
HDD:
- 1b. partition ext4 for native Ubuntu. Size ... whatever you can spare from the NTFS.
- 2b. partition ntfs for both Windows and Ubuntu file sharing.
This setup benifits the most of the speed of the SSD (holds all system related files) and the reliability of a HDD (holds all personal files).
Regarding 2a: 5 Gb /home is enough to hold all configurations. There is a file in ./config/ called users-dirs.dirs where you can change where the user directories can be found. Simply point them to 1b. Having a separate /home/ allows for reinstalling / whilst keeping your personal configurations.
Reinstalling can be done by formatting the SSD (the whole disk for all operating systems or just the one you want to reinstall) and mounting the data partitions.
answered 5 hours ago
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I liked the way you suggested, but may I ask why wouldn't you use all of SSD's space?
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I have 1 TB HDD and 512 GB Samsung 960 Pro SSD.
The 1 TB essentially a brick but all 1,000 GB are allocated to a sing Windows NTFS partition. When Windows games are installed (60GB each) they go to HDD but are copied to SSD when it's time to play them for a few weeks / months.
The SSD has 400 GB for Windows 10 and the remaining 100 GB for two Ubuntu 16.04 partitions (20GB and 45GB), one Ubuntu 18.04 partition 25GB and one 10 GB partition for all four OS's to share.
The shared partition is primarily used to store bash scripts used in both Windows 10 WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and the three Ubuntu distros. Occasionally screenshots and other graphics are placed there. The shared partition is in NTFS format because Windows 10 can't read/write ext4 Linux partitions. Linux on the other hand can read/write NTFS partitions with no problem (well very few anyway).
I don't believe in separate /boot or /home partitions but I understand many do and I don't fault them for it. I put everything in / so I don't have to micro manage storage allocation between /, /boot and /home.
What gives me peace of mind is every day important files are backed up off-site automatically using cron to cloud. Maybe once a year I'll use gparted to make some partitions larger and some smaller.
If you can set it up such that the HDD is used to store all your projects and the project you are currently working on for a few days/weeks/months is transferred to SSD then I think that is the best.
answered 5 hours ago
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I have 1 TB HDD and 512 GB Samsung 960 Pro SSD.
The 1 TB essentially a brick but all 1,000 GB are allocated to a sing Windows NTFS partition. When Windows games are installed (60GB each) they go to HDD but are copied to SSD when it's time to play them for a few weeks / months.
The SSD has 400 GB for Windows 10 and the remaining 100 GB for two Ubuntu 16.04 partitions (20GB and 45GB), one Ubuntu 18.04 partition 25GB and one 10 GB partition for all four OS's to share.
The shared partition is primarily used to store bash scripts used in both Windows 10 WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and the three Ubuntu distros. Occasionally screenshots and other graphics are placed there. The shared partition is in NTFS format because Windows 10 can't read/write ext4 Linux partitions. Linux on the other hand can read/write NTFS partitions with no problem (well very few anyway).
I don't believe in separate /boot or /home partitions but I understand many do and I don't fault them for it. I put everything in / so I don't have to micro manage storage allocation between /, /boot and /home.
What gives me peace of mind is every day important files are backed up off-site automatically using cron to cloud. Maybe once a year I'll use gparted to make some partitions larger and some smaller.
If you can set it up such that the HDD is used to store all your projects and the project you are currently working on for a few days/weeks/months is transferred to SSD then I think that is the best.
answered 5 hours ago
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I have 1 TB HDD and 512 GB Samsung 960 Pro SSD.
The 1 TB essentially a brick but all 1,000 GB are allocated to a sing Windows NTFS partition. When Windows games are installed (60GB each) they go to HDD but are copied to SSD when it's time to play them for a few weeks / months.
The SSD has 400 GB for Windows 10 and the remaining 100 GB for two Ubuntu 16.04 partitions (20GB and 45GB), one Ubuntu 18.04 partition 25GB and one 10 GB partition for all four OS's to share.
The shared partition is primarily used to store bash scripts used in both Windows 10 WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and the three Ubuntu distros. Occasionally screenshots and other graphics are placed there. The shared partition is in NTFS format because Windows 10 can't read/write ext4 Linux partitions. Linux on the other hand can read/write NTFS partitions with no problem (well very few anyway).
I don't believe in separate /boot or /home partitions but I understand many do and I don't fault them for it. I put everything in / so I don't have to micro manage storage allocation between /, /boot and /home.
What gives me peace of mind is every day important files are backed up off-site automatically using cron to cloud. Maybe once a year I'll use gparted to make some partitions larger and some smaller.
If you can set it up such that the HDD is used to store all your projects and the project you are currently working on for a few days/weeks/months is transferred to SSD then I think that is the best.
answered 5 hours ago
WinEunuuchs2UnixWinEunuuchs2Unix
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I have 1 TB HDD and 512 GB Samsung 960 Pro SSD.
The 1 TB essentially a brick but all 1,000 GB are allocated to a sing Windows NTFS partition. When Windows games are installed (60GB each) they go to HDD but are copied to SSD when it's time to play them for a few weeks / months.
The SSD has 400 GB for Windows 10 and the remaining 100 GB for two Ubuntu 16.04 partitions (20GB and 45GB), one Ubuntu 18.04 partition 25GB and one 10 GB partition for all four OS's to share.
The shared partition is primarily used to store bash scripts used in both Windows 10 WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and the three Ubuntu distros. Occasionally screenshots and other graphics are placed there. The shared partition is in NTFS format because Windows 10 can't read/write ext4 Linux partitions. Linux on the other hand can read/write NTFS partitions with no problem (well very few anyway).
I don't believe in separate /boot or /home partitions but I understand many do and I don't fault them for it. I put everything in / so I don't have to micro manage storage allocation between /, /boot and /home.
What gives me peace of mind is every day important files are backed up off-site automatically using cron to cloud. Maybe once a year I'll use gparted to make some partitions larger and some smaller.
If you can set it up such that the HDD is used to store all your projects and the project you are currently working on for a few days/weeks/months is transferred to SSD then I think that is the best.
answered 5 hours ago
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I would suggest the following setup for a single user desktop:
SSD:
- 1a. Windows. Whole disk -/- 25 Gb.
- 2a. Ubuntu. 25 Gb. 20Gb for / and 5 Gb for /home/
HDD:
- 1b. partition ext4 for native Ubuntu. Size ... whatever you can spare from the NTFS.
- 2b. partition ntfs for both Windows and Ubuntu file sharing.
This setup benifits the most of the speed of the SSD (holds all system related files) and the reliability of a HDD (holds all personal files).
Regarding 2a: 5 Gb /home is enough to hold all configurations. There is a file in ./config/ called users-dirs.dirs where you can change where the user directories can be found. Simply point them to 1b. Having a separate /home/ allows for reinstalling / whilst keeping your personal configurations.
Reinstalling can be done by formatting the SSD (the whole disk for all operating systems or just the one you want to reinstall) and mounting the data partitions.
answered 5 hours ago
RinzwindRinzwind
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I liked the way you suggested, but may I ask why wouldn't you use all of SSD's space?
– Charles Willian
2 hours ago
add a comment |
I would suggest the following setup for a single user desktop:
SSD:
- 1a. Windows. Whole disk -/- 25 Gb.
- 2a. Ubuntu. 25 Gb. 20Gb for / and 5 Gb for /home/
HDD:
- 1b. partition ext4 for native Ubuntu. Size ... whatever you can spare from the NTFS.
- 2b. partition ntfs for both Windows and Ubuntu file sharing.
This setup benifits the most of the speed of the SSD (holds all system related files) and the reliability of a HDD (holds all personal files).
Regarding 2a: 5 Gb /home is enough to hold all configurations. There is a file in ./config/ called users-dirs.dirs where you can change where the user directories can be found. Simply point them to 1b. Having a separate /home/ allows for reinstalling / whilst keeping your personal configurations.
Reinstalling can be done by formatting the SSD (the whole disk for all operating systems or just the one you want to reinstall) and mounting the data partitions.
answered 5 hours ago
RinzwindRinzwind
217k28 gold badges419 silver badges560 bronze badges
I liked the way you suggested, but may I ask why wouldn't you use all of SSD's space?
– Charles Willian
2 hours ago
add a comment |
I would suggest the following setup for a single user desktop:
SSD:
- 1a. Windows. Whole disk -/- 25 Gb.
- 2a. Ubuntu. 25 Gb. 20Gb for / and 5 Gb for /home/
HDD:
- 1b. partition ext4 for native Ubuntu. Size ... whatever you can spare from the NTFS.
- 2b. partition ntfs for both Windows and Ubuntu file sharing.
This setup benifits the most of the speed of the SSD (holds all system related files) and the reliability of a HDD (holds all personal files).
Regarding 2a: 5 Gb /home is enough to hold all configurations. There is a file in ./config/ called users-dirs.dirs where you can change where the user directories can be found. Simply point them to 1b. Having a separate /home/ allows for reinstalling / whilst keeping your personal configurations.
Reinstalling can be done by formatting the SSD (the whole disk for all operating systems or just the one you want to reinstall) and mounting the data partitions.
answered 5 hours ago
RinzwindRinzwind
217k28 gold badges419 silver badges560 bronze badges
I would suggest the following setup for a single user desktop:
SSD:
- 1a. Windows. Whole disk -/- 25 Gb.
- 2a. Ubuntu. 25 Gb. 20Gb for / and 5 Gb for /home/
HDD:
- 1b. partition ext4 for native Ubuntu. Size ... whatever you can spare from the NTFS.
- 2b. partition ntfs for both Windows and Ubuntu file sharing.
This setup benifits the most of the speed of the SSD (holds all system related files) and the reliability of a HDD (holds all personal files).
Regarding 2a: 5 Gb /home is enough to hold all configurations. There is a file in ./config/ called users-dirs.dirs where you can change where the user directories can be found. Simply point them to 1b. Having a separate /home/ allows for reinstalling / whilst keeping your personal configurations.
Reinstalling can be done by formatting the SSD (the whole disk for all operating systems or just the one you want to reinstall) and mounting the data partitions.
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I liked the way you suggested, but may I ask why wouldn't you use all of SSD's space?
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I liked the way you suggested, but may I ask why wouldn't you use all of SSD's space?
– Charles Willian
2 hours ago
I liked the way you suggested, but may I ask why wouldn't you use all of SSD's space?
– Charles Willian
2 hours ago
I liked the way you suggested, but may I ask why wouldn't you use all of SSD's space?
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Put Ubuntu on one disk (the whole thing), and Windows on the other disk (the whole thing). Whichever OS you want to be faster, put that one on the SSD. RAM is plentiful enough where swap will almost never be used and it only wastes space to break things up into partitions. The only partition you might want to set up separately would be your /home partition in Ubuntu and that is just for ease of keeping the data there intact in case you want to reinstall Ubuntu or replace with a different distro. Don't over think it.
– Nmath
8 hours ago
as Nmath said it is simpler to keep a separate drive for an OS. However you are not forced to. You can re-partition the HDD to be 2x500GB, and keep windows on one partition and keep the second one as "data" Then if you boot from SSD you can mount windows partitions (as long as they are not encrypted) I find ubuntu quite light, so you can even keep it on the HDD, and while it will be somewhat slower that might not be annoyingly so. In fact, you can install both systems on the SSD (separate partitions are advised) and use the HDD as a shared data.
– Dr Phil
7 hours ago
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All Acer with UEFI need "trust" setting after install. Acer Aspire E15 will not dual boot, many details Trust settings in step 35 askubuntu.com/questions/627416/… Most Acer need UEFI update & if SSD firmware update.
– oldfred
7 hours ago
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4 hours ago