I have a 500GB SSD in which i would like to have both Windows and Ubuntu. My plan is to have something similar to this: Windows 8.1 and ubuntu 14.04 Uefi boot
- an efi partition (created by windows installer) which will have Grub as bootloader
- 150GB ntfs for Windows
- 15GB ext4 for Ubuntu (root)
- 35GB ext4 for Ubuntu (home)
- ~8-16GB swap for Ubuntu (I have 16GB RAM)
- ~284-292GB ntfs for Data shared for both Windows and Ubuntu
My current setup is
200GB ntfs Windows
300GB ntfs for Data
I plan to shrink both the Windows and the data partiton in order to achieve my desired plan.
My questions:
Does the order of partitions matter? Does it matter if the ubuntu partitions are not at the end/beggining of the drive? Does the swap partition behaves better if its the last/first partition?
Can I use the shared NTFS Data partition between windows and ubuntu without encountering problems?
Do I have enough space for my ubuntu /home partition (thinking that I'll have access to the ntfs shared partition)?
Edit: Laptop, Asus N56jr, i7, 16Gb Ram, SSD samsung 850 evo 500gb
Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04