09-10-2014, 03:34 PM
This may actually be what you meant, but will clarify best way just in case there is any confusion.
You don't actually want LL's full /home to be on that data partition. LL's /home will have not only data files in it, but also program config files. Since you want the data partition to be shared with Windows it must be formatted as either NTFS or FAT32, neither of which handle Linux permissions/ownership of files the way Ext4 does and that could cause problems if you try to make /home on that partition.
Would be best to keep /home on the root partition or on its own small partition (~2GB) and have just the data files go on the data partition. Then link or bind the data folders to /home. Here is tutorial for doing that: How To Create and Use a Separate Data Partition.
As far as the size of needed partitions goes:
* Windows = use your best judgement taking into account addition software you plan to install to it. I don't know enough to give size advise on this.
* LL "/" root partition = 20-25GB will be fine as long as you store data files on the separate data partition.
* LL "/home" partition = 2-5GB max, but not really needed at all unless you prefer to keep user config files separate from root partition.
* Shared Data partition = whatever you want it to be.
You don't actually want LL's full /home to be on that data partition. LL's /home will have not only data files in it, but also program config files. Since you want the data partition to be shared with Windows it must be formatted as either NTFS or FAT32, neither of which handle Linux permissions/ownership of files the way Ext4 does and that could cause problems if you try to make /home on that partition.
Would be best to keep /home on the root partition or on its own small partition (~2GB) and have just the data files go on the data partition. Then link or bind the data folders to /home. Here is tutorial for doing that: How To Create and Use a Separate Data Partition.
As far as the size of needed partitions goes:
* Windows = use your best judgement taking into account addition software you plan to install to it. I don't know enough to give size advise on this.
* LL "/" root partition = 20-25GB will be fine as long as you store data files on the separate data partition.
* LL "/home" partition = 2-5GB max, but not really needed at all unless you prefer to keep user config files separate from root partition.
* Shared Data partition = whatever you want it to be.
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