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I bought a laptop with this fancy SSD drive, fancy new UEFI aso. I figured at first Windows out Ubuntu in but after doing 3 DoA on 3 laptops in one day I realized that maybe keeping Windows could come in handy. So dual boot it is. And this is what I've got:

Disk 1 - 500 Gb HD

  1. 300 Mb Windows only says "Healthy" don't know what it's for.
  2. 600 Mb "Healthy (EFI partition)"
  3. 186.30 Gb NTFS "OS (C:)" "Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)"
  4. 258.45 Gb NTFS "Data (D:)" "Healthy"
  5. 20.00 Gb "Healthy (Recovery Partition)"

Disk 2 - 24 Gb SSD

  1. 4.00 Gb "Healthy (OEM Partition)"
  2. 18.36 Gb "Healthy (Primary Partition)"

So I'm not sure what the first partition on each drive does (the 300 Gb on the HD and the OEM Partition on the SSD. Nor do I know what Data (D:). I think the 2nd partition on the SSD is for some speedup of Windows.

I'm debating if I should shrink the OS (C:) drive to around 120 GB or so. Clear the Data (D:) and also use the whole SSD for Ubuntu. That would leave me 24 Gb for e.g. / on the SSD and some 320 Gb on the HD for /home and swap. Is this a reasonable setup? Do I need to configure fstab for the SSD differently to a HD?

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Possible duplicate of: askubuntu.com/questions/207242/… – user68186 Dec 20 '12 at 18:27

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