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Recommended partitions and sizes for installing Ubuntu 11.04

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What are the recommended partitions for installing Ubuntu 11.04 on a laptop. Should it be same as a desktop’s, and what are the minimum recommended sizes for the partittions?

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  1. Jayzone on May 29, 2011

    If you are not using LVM, configure these partitions:
    /boot partition 500 MB
    Swap partition 2000 MB or 2 GB
    / partition 10 GB
    /home – as much space as you have to allocatte

    If you want to use LVM, configure these:
    non-LVM /boot partition 500 MB
    LVM Swap partition 2000 MB or 2 GB
    LVM / partition 5 GB
    /home – about 20 GB or more

    When using LVM, leave enough unallocated in case you have to add other partitions, or grow existing ones if they run out of space. I believe finid has some articles on how to partition a disk for these situations on the main site.

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