basic partitioning scheme for 1Tb hard drive

Question

I have to replace the old 2.5" SATA disk with new HDD (SATA) and make a clean installation (Ubuntu 18). What would be basic partitioning scheme for laptop 1TB (SATA) hard drive and 4GB RAM? I want to have separate partitions /usr, /home, /var and /tmp

Please advice approximate reasonable size for these. Does ubuntu 18.04 use swap file or swap partition?

Solution

The basic partitioning scheme would be the default partitioning scheme of the Ubuntu installer: one single partition (and depending on how you boot, an EFI partition). Current versions of Ubuntu by default use a swap file instead of a dedicated swap partition.

Comments

[Organic Marble]

OP: Read some of the questions about boot partition filling up before choosing this approach askubuntu.com/q/785460/243321

[Lexx Luxx]

I'm going to install ubuntu 18.04 LTS, currently is used default "legacy" boot mode. Do I need /boot and /boot/efi partitions?

[vanadium]

Just let the installer do the partitioning. In legacy you do not need an efi. A separate boot is only used if you choose to encrypt the system partition.

[Lexx Luxx]

I need separate /usr, /home, /var and /tmp partitions

[vanadium]

That is utterly unclear from your question. Please edit your question and explain your goals.