On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 03:20:11AM +0000, D&P Dimov wrote:
Considering that I will be installing Debian 9.5 Stable on a new Dell laptop with 512 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM, and intend to also run Windows 10 as a virtual machine from the /home partition (so it doesn't get affected during kernel updates and upgrades), does this seem like an adequate space allocation: 1MB free space (as per a recent post on this forum) boot partition, not encrypted, 1.5 GB / root, encrypted, 40 GB /swap, encrypted, 16GB (same as RAM) /home, encrypted, contains the virtual Windows 10 and documents, the remaining approximately 454 GB
On desktop machines these days I tend to just make a big root partition. Swap can be a swapfile on the root partition or you can make it a separate partition if you want. If you're booting via UEFI you need a separate partition for that, and you can split out boot if you want an encrypted root.
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 12:37:54AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
Note that for SSD's (and flash drives?), you want to leave a decent amount of unused space (~25%) at the end of the drive for performance reasons:https://www.seagate.com/tech-insights/ssd-over-provisioning-benefits-master-ti/
Or just use fstrim, as mentioned in that same document.