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I'm planning to buy a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition. It comes with 256 GB of SSD.

My intention is to install Ubuntu GNOME and I'm not sure of how my partitions should be arranged. I've always used root and home in different partitions, but I have no experience with SSD disks and I have no clue.

My guess is: 20GB for root (at the beginig), 8GB for swap (at the end) and the rest for /home. But, I repeat, I have no idea even if it's a good idea to do this on a SSD. Also, it would be helpful to know whether the have to be primary or logical partitions.

Any recommendation for my case?

Alfredo Hernández
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You can readjust the partitions later on by booting from a Live distro which has Gparted, which makes this a non-permanent decision.

I am writing this on a Lenovo R60 with a 256GB SSD, and I partitioned things a little differently. I used zram instead of a traditional swap partition, and in the last six months, I've never needed true swap. Rarely do I ever exceed 50% of my 3GB used with 64-bit Xubuntu 13.10, even when transcoding videos while web surfing with Chromium.

Since SSDs wear out with repeated writes, moving to virtual swap in RAM not only speeds things up but it solves the SSD early fail issue.

I also left 20% of the space unallocated, as suggested for overprovisioning by Anand Shimpi among others.

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