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SSD partition for a UI development workstation

jp flag

I am dual booting my PC with a 512GB SSD and I'll be using installing the latest LTS Ubuntu(22) and be using it for UI development. This means that I'll have the following running:

  • Around 60 chrome tabs open at any time.
  • Around 30 Opera tabs
  • Around 30 Firefox tabs A couple of Node servers
  • Mongo cache + server instance
  • Two or three UI servers (React or such)
  • And maybe a backend server of some sort at extremes.
  • Three or four Vscode instances
  • A SQL DB server and such.

I don't know how much space I should reserve on the partition for UBUNTU, and out of that how much I can fill and how much of the partition I should leave empty. I am leaning towards 50-60 GB from all the articles, but I'm not sure if that will be enough. All the other questions I found were really old and for considerably different scenarios than mine.

Side Note: To support all this I have the latest i5 processor, 16GB of RAM, and a large extra monitor connected to the RTX3060 graphics card. In short, I believe the machine should be able to take it.

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sa flag

Development machines tend to require extra disk space. For what you are trying to do allocating a 256GB partition for Ubuntu would be nice. Don't waste disk space by creating extra partitions that you don't need. I don't think you will run out of disk space on this computer any time soon, but if you do you can buy a larger SSD and reinstall Ubuntu on it.

Achyut Rastogi avatar
jp flag
Are there some calculations or considerations for 256GB, or is it what you have used without issue? Thanks for the answer.
karel avatar
sa flag
It is what I am using right now. I have two 256GB SSDs in my workstation. One is for Ubuntu 22.04. I have enabled Ubuntu Pro on this OS so it is supported until 2032. I will use my Ubuntu 22.04 for running legacy software. Starting with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS I will dual boot on my workstation and use the other SSD for the latest Ubuntu LTS release. In addition to these two SSDs I have a large capacity drive that I use for data storage.
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