Surface Pro 4 WIn 10 and Ubuntu Partition Sizes

[Michael Butash]

I am curious to know too your mileage, the devices look really interesting,
but I've always heard they're quite buggy to use, both under windoze, and
worse under linux.

Even more so, surfacegate <https://flickergate.com/> dissuaded me to buy
even a used one to play with that microsoft only half-ass acknowledges
<https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4230448/surface-pro-4-screen-flicker>
break randomly and commonly.

-mb

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 5:43 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What Mr Butash said. The larger boot partition will save you in the long
> run.
>
> 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...
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 4:59 PM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:
>
>> 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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