Laptop: dual boot installation with Win 10

[palimmo]

Hi,
I got a new laptop with w10 (preinstalled) and I would like to install soon mx alongside in dual boot.

A few questions:

a) I have a 1 TB SSD hard disk with these following partitions:
260 MB (EFI System Partition)
952 GB (ntfs, C: for W10) with a lot of empty space
1 GB (OEM PArtition)

I will create a ext4 partition for mx (~50GB) and a partition where I will save all my data, fotos, videos, etc.. This partition must be accessible from both systems.
Which format is nowadays the best? ntfs?

b) This laptop has 8 GB RAM.
Do I need a swap partition? How big?
Since this machine has already a lot of RAM, does a swap partition make sense only if I will use hibernation?

c) I have already tried mx in live mode. Great.
According to System Infomarmation, are only 5,8 GB installed/available. Why? Is part of it "reserved" for VEGA GPU?

Thanks a lot!

[hkjz]

Hey,

according to
https://askubuntu.com/questions/164728/ ... oot-system
NTFS, exFAT, Fat32 : all would work. I would do exFAT for me, but NTFS will work.

5 GiB is enough for the system. 30 GiB and 35 GiB as well are already properly extended in storage capacity.

Somewhere recently
viewtopic.php?f=104&t=55161&hilit=swap
were discussion about SWAP, condoms and guns.

According to System Infomarmation, are only 5,8 GB installed/available. Why? Is part of it "reserved" for VEGA GPU?

RAM Gib or storage Gib?

[palimmo]

Hey,

according to
https://askubuntu.com/questions/164728/ ... oot-system
NTFS, exFAT, Fat32 : all would work. I would do exFAT for me, but NTFS will work.

5 GiB is enough for the system. 30 GiB and 35 GiB as well are already properly extended in storage capacity.

Somewhere recently
viewtopic.php?f=104&t=55161&hilit=swap
were discussion about SWAP, condoms and guns.

According to System Infomarmation, are only 5,8 GB installed/available. Why? Is part of it "reserved" for VEGA GPU?

RAM Gib or storage Gib?

RAM Gib.

Well, than I would say:
- ntfs partition for data.
- 8gb swap partition (since it could be that I'll use hibernation)
- around 30gb ext4 partition for mx linux.

[hkjz]

That is a print from my /root disk usage

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279492 items, totalling 5.6 GiB (5,974,427,788 bytes)
(some contents unreadable)
22.1 GiB of 29.4 GiB free (24% used)

it looks that system use 5.6 GiB... which means that even 10 GiB is absolutely enough.

'Data' is called '/home'

[Head_on_a_Stick]

discussion about SWAP, condoms and guns

Ixnay on the unsgay :lipsrsealed:

Disclaimer: I didn't say that I agreed with the argument I presented.

@OP: I would use NTFS for the shared partition, FAT's too frangible (IMO) and it has a 4GiB file size limit. Manage it with Windows though, not Linux.

[Stevo]

Let us know the specs of the laptop first, too. Some new machines, such as those with tenth-generation Intel graphics, won't boot on a standard MX 19

[palimmo]

Prozessor AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx, 2100 MHz, 4 Kern(e), 8 logische(r) Prozessor(en)

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Prozessor AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

That is not well supported by the 4.19 kernels so you might want to try one of the newer versions. And also the newer xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu and non-free firmware packages in MX's AHS repository.

EDIT: looks like the kernel devs have managed to break amdgpu for kernel 5.4: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=252075 *slow handclap*