The only other thing I'd add - if you're planning to dual boot a machine - allow both operating systems enough space. The machine on which I'm typing this has a 256G disk. It came to me with Windows 10 and I retained a Windows partition to do manufacturer's updates and so on. I gave the Windows partition 30G and thought that would be fine. Not so: I had to resize the partition after the fact and 40G has proved fine. Fortunately, I had no data to save but it's worth thinking about.
Andrew Cater wrote:
> To be honest, on 256G - when you don't know what you want - I'd be inclined
> to take the guided partitioning all in one partition layout as a good
> start. Logs rotate these days, downloads can be deleted. If you know you're
> going to be running lots of things in one particular partition, that's
> slightly different - I have 6TB as a dedicated LVM volume under /srv here
> in one machine because there's a local Linux mirror across my desk, but
> that's exceptional
It's not a bad choice, but a separate home has made any number
of upgrades and experiments much more bearable to me. Backups,
too, of course.
-dsr-