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I just bought the samsung 960 evo 250gb and am reinstalling windows 10 and ubuntu 16.04.

  1. How big should I make the partition for ubuntu on the ssd? Is 10gb enough for the OS and future updates?

  2. Should the swap area be on the ssd or the hdd?

  3. When I install windows 10 and ubuntu on the ssd how do I set it so my c drive is the hdd, so when I download stuff it will default to my hdd unless I change it before downloading?

  4. Should I have two separate partitions on the hdd to separate windows files and ubuntu files?

idknuttin
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Assuming data partitions will be on the HDD

1) I would give Ubuntu 50GB minimum (10GB isn't enough for an install)

2) Swap should be on the HDD. SDD life is determined by writes, so only things that do not change frequently should be there.

3) C: in windows is always the partition that it loaded from. you will have to set the download location in your software.

4) Linux can mount NTFS partitions, but I would have 3 partitions. one for windows, one for Linux, and one for sharing files. the share partition needs to be formatted NTFS.

Note: quick boot in windows should be turned off if sharing a partition. Because quick boot is really a hibernate, sharing a partition with it turned on could cause file system errors on the shared partition.

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