When dealing with efi, I shrink the c-drive partition, make a 500mb /boot partition, and make the last partition usually a luks encrypted volume, or a lvm pv directly if no encryption desired.  I still like to keep /boot and $else separate.

Last time doing this with win10, I assigned 60gb because I only really boot it for bios/thunderbolt dock updates.  Installing and using a win10 vm minimally, orfice365, visio, other stupid windoze-only things, and os/orfice updates, I'm backing up to around ~50gb of disk so far in that.  If you intend to do more than use it use it for bios updates, I'd suggest more than 60gb of space.  Win10 is a pig.

I miss the old days of running xp with everything on a 6gb disk image...

/sda1 == /boot/EFI

/sda2 == /media/windoze-cdrive

/sda3 == /boot

/sda4 == (encrypted) luks-vol0

/dev/mapper/luks-vol0 == pv0/vg0

/dev/mapper/vg0-root == /root

... etc

-mb

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:

I recently acquired a Surface Pro 4 (i7 6650U 2.2GHz 16GB RAM 512GB SSD Win 10 12.3" Tablet) and want to install Ubuntu 18.04 on it. I am following this guide - https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/7kb1ky/guide_installing_linux_on_surfaceseries_devices/

Ubuntu will be my primary OS for this tablet, I hope!! Mostly python/web/java/android development. Both CLI and the Ubuntu GUI.

First step - shrink the Windows partition and create a new partition for Ubuntu. The SP4 currently has three partitions:

260 MB EFI System Partition

475.70 GB C:

880 MB Recovery Partition

Windows 10 needs a min of 20 GB according to the specs, but I have seen recommendation to not shrink it below 50 GB. What is a minimum usable amount?

What would you recommend for the size of the Windows C: partition and the Ubuntu partition?

Thanks!

Mark

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