Can a partition on a Mac HD be too large for VM Ubuntu? I partitioned 222GB when I first got my Mac Mini ; it has a T hard drive.
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Is large, but not too large. I think that is a reasonable amount. – 0x2b3bfa0 Apr 12 '15 at 18:08
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Most computers operating systems, even in Virtual Systems, are not very limited in how big a hard drive space they can manage. The only limit is perhaps the filesystem used - so for example, if ext4 is used , the maximium sensible limit is 16 tebibytes (roughly 1099 GB, 1024 GiB)
So as long as you have a space for Ubuntu of at least 10 GiB, it should be fine for most uses. I generally use a minimum of at least 50 GiB for the root system on installations I do (with at least 40 GiB for the home and up to 8 GiB swap space) - having a larger space available is not a problem and is usually a benefit, though you will want to leave some free space available for the Mac system.
