In what proportions is it better to partition a hard drive?

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gassmonkey2015-06-19 18:10:12

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gassmonkey, 2015-06-19 18:10:12

There is a camping machine (laptop) for working outside the home. It costs 2 systems, Win and Ububtu. Both are actively used in the work, each for its own tasks. The last time I was hired by the organization of the workspace on the laptop ~ 2 years ago, then I used mainly Ubuntu and sawed off 200 GB for it. Now Win is mostly needed, and there is a catastrophic lack of space for it (the option with buying an additional screw is not of interest, the laptop is not the main one, I do not plan to spend money on it).
So, the question is:
How to optimally distribute a 320GB hard drive between Win and Ubuntu, while leaving the maximum possible amount of space for a common ntfs partition, and so that both systems feel comfortable?

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gassmonkey, 2015-06-20
@gassmonkey

Divided something like this: 100-win / 150-common ntfs / 50-Ubuntu.

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Maxim Moseychuk, 2015-06-19
@fshp

Break with the golden ratio. Since the time of Aristotle, this has been optimal for partitioning hard drives.

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Vitaliy Orlov, 2015-06-19
@orlov0562

My Windows + Program Files takes up 55 GB of a 128 GB SSD, this is with photoshops and offices. 75 GB is enough.
If I'm not mistaken, 20 gigabytes is enough for Ubuntu, but it all depends on what you're doing there
. Everything else is on a shared disk.
Well, to be honest, no one here knows the optimal dimensions, too much depends on your needs and software set.

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Vladimir, 2015-06-19
@azrail_dev

On ubuntu, stay 20-30 gigs, it's enough.

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Victor, 2015-06-19
@witosp

1/4 = win/ubuntu
Still, it would be better to advise a separate hard drive or laptop for each OS (nothing lasts forever).
Longer railway will live

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Begmak, 2015-06-19
@Begmak

As noted above, it all depends on your needs.
If you only need to surf the Internet and edit files in Word on this laptop, then you can safely not allocate more than 70 GB for Win. If you need all sorts of Photoshop \ AutoCAD \ Sony Vegas, then about 100GB.
The situation is the same with Ubuntu. It all depends on the range of tasks. For a short time for the test, I installed Ubuntu on 10GB, it behaved quite well.
On a vskidku I can advise you the following:
1) 70-100GB on Win
2) 10-40GB on Ubuntu (the swap partition is right there)
3) The rest is for the general, i.e. 200-260GB
And then figure it out yourself =)

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Serg Off, 2015-06-21
@mnhunter81

found my optimum. with blackjack .... one or two ntfs partitions under win - 1st system with programs - win itself takes 13.5 GB after the drivers are rolled up, In the process of use it grows to 18 (caches, temp folders, etc.)
the second ntfs partition - end-to-end (for storing downloads from both systems), then partitions under /boot from 100 Mb (with an eye to crawl to GPT - I do 1024 Mb) after in the extended partition - root -12 Gb - if it is not split into all sorts of /usr, then swap, /home and /opt. opt sometimes needs to be bound to /tmp when imagemagik has to process large images. After we mount the 2nd ntfs if there is one to ~/downloads.