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I have a 128GB SSD with Windows 10 installed on it and I also have a 1TB HDD on my computer. I want to dual boot Ubuntu along side with windows 10 but I don't know how much space I need to give to Ubuntu and if I should even install it on the same drive as windows, because I roughly have 60GB's on my SSD left but I thought it would be better to keep them like that since windows always has updates and that sort of stuff. I mainly use windows for gaming and pretty much everything, Ubuntu is for college programming purposes.

Sorry if I misnamed any term but I'm still a beginner to all this sort of stuff.

Kristopher Ives
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Daniel
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Although this question has many possibilities, according to the needs of each one.

I would install in particular:

An ext4 partition, of 1 gigabytes, for /boot in the SDD.

An ext4 partition of 30 gigabytes for /on the HDD.

A partition exchange system, of 4 gigas to swap on the HDD.

An ext4 partition, of 40 gigabytes, for /home on the HDD.

kyodake
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    Most desktops do not need /boot partition. And swap is not a partition exchange system, but more for use if RAM if full of active programs. Ubuntu with 17.04 or later does not create a swap partition, but uses a swap file, but will use an existing swap if found. How much for /home or /mnt/data whether NTFS or ext4 depends greatly on how much data you want or will have. – oldfred Apr 02 '18 at 14:12
  • I would prefer to do not have separate swap partition and to setup a swap file instead that. Separate boot partition is required when you are using LVM, etc. – pa4080 Apr 02 '18 at 14:15