<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">What Mr Butash said. The larger boot partition will save you in the long run.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Ubuntu with the surface pro was interesting to say the least. Let me know how it works out. Also make yourself a recovery stick first...</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 4:59 PM Michael Butash <<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net">michael@butash.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I miss the old days of running xp with everything on a 6gb disk image...<br></div><div><br></div><div>/sda1 == /boot/EFI</div><div>/sda2 == /media/windoze-cdrive</div><div>/sda3 == /boot</div><div>/sda4 == (encrypted) luks-vol0<br></div><div>/dev/mapper/luks-vol0 == pv0/vg0</div><div>/dev/mapper/vg0-root == /root</div><div>... etc</div><div><br></div><div>-mb<br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Mark Phillips <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@phillipsmarketing.biz" target="_blank">mark@phillipsmarketing.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">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 - <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/7kb1ky/guide_installing_linux_on_surfaceseries_devices/" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/7kb1ky/guide_installing_linux_on_surfaceseries_devices/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Ubuntu will be my primary OS for this tablet, I hope!! Mostly python/web/java/android development. Both CLI and the Ubuntu GUI.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>First step - shrink the Windows partition and create a new partition for Ubuntu. The SP4 currently has three partitions:</div><div><br></div><div>260 MB EFI System Partition</div><div>475.70 GB C:</div><div>880 MB Recovery Partition</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>What would you recommend for the size of the Windows C: partition and the Ubuntu partition?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><span class="m_1331901234898927939HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Mark</div></font></span></div></div>
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