I am trying to make my laptop dual boot with Windows 10 and Ubuntu. My laptop is having 8 GB ram and a 1 TB hard disk. The max I can devote to Ubuntu is 250 GB.
Now I am trying to understand clearly how much space needs to be allocated to each mount point. Below are the few points I understood
/swap
:- used to move files if RAM runs out. It should be greater than 2XRAM. So I can dedicate 16 GB./root
:- It is like Local Disk C in Windows. It stores all the Ubuntu OS files. I can put 30 GB under it./home
:- It will be hard drive for my Ubuntu. So rest all can be put in here.
Now some instructions are telling me to create a partition for /
. I tried to read & it was written that this partition stores programme files. I am not able to understand the difference between /
& /root
. Can anyone please once explain the difference to me and also how much space I should allot to it & even if other partitions need more or less space.
Thank you.
/root
. You are making this a lot more complicated than it needs to be. If you create enough unpartitioned free space before the installation, the installer will give you a guided option to "install alongside Windows" and Ubuntu will be installed to a single partition where you left the unpartitioned space. – Nmath Dec 03 '21 at 10:52/
and/root
directories - please have a look if you're still wondering. Thanks karel for the other link and your answer which covers everything else asked about here. – Zanna Dec 15 '21 at 18:21