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Dual Boot Best Practices? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Will be installing either Mint or Pop_OS on a new laptop which has a 512gb SSD. Will keep Windows for gaming, at least for now, with the games installed on an external HD. But otherwise, this is to experiment with living in Linux.

I understand that I can unallocate HD space from Windows in order to make room for the LInux OS, leaving at least 25 or 30gb for the Linux OS itself.

Do I then extend that space further, so to speak, to allow for any other programs I might install as well as for data? Do I create a third partition for data that will be shared between the two OS?

What's a reasonable breakdown?

e.g.
Windows 100gb; Linux 400gb or
Win 100gb; Linux 30gb; Data (NTFS) 370gb?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

No, no, most Linux installers have the option to separate /home into it's own partition, because yesz you can put the /home directory on a separate partition and just mount it to /home on boot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I looked into this little bit.

So on a 512gb hd an e.g. breakdown:

Windows 150gb
Linux / 30gb
Linux /home ? 70gb
Data (nfts format, shared with both os) 262gb (or whatever is actually left over)

(I'll have an external HD for games)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, smth like that, I'd make /home like 90gb personally, but 70 is also fine. Also beware, format your external drive as exFAT, not ntfs. Linux can run games from an ntfs partition, steam cannot (it's been an issue for a while)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Huh. I was going to have an external HD for games with two partitions: a larger one for PC, formatted in ntfs, and a smaller one for Linux, for if I want to try gaming with it, and formatted in ext4. You're suggesting that both should be in exfat, instead?

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