Surface Pro 4 WIn 10 and Ubuntu Partition Sizes

[Michael Butash]

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 at 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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