How much disk space I need for Win10/Kali dual boot?

Question

So, I recently got a new laptop with a 256 SSD and I want to dual boot Win10 and Linux Kali on it. How much space do Kali and Windows need? Just the operating systems after installation.

Thanks.

Solution

My kali-2016.1 install was pretty complete and has a lot of stuff. I allocated a 50Gb VM disk to it:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1        48G   19G   27G  42% /

(That also includes a 4Gb Nessus install I added afterwards, and 4Gb of apt caches from a dist-upgrade).

I have a mini-laptop with 32Gb SSD running Windows 10. It can be tight when receiving larger Windows 10 updates (I had to use a USB drive for one update; it was too large). I would recommend minimum 50Gb, probably 100Gb for Windows 10, especially if you plan on adding software (Office?) or games.

Comments

[Mirco De Zorzi]

Bouth OS are 64-Bit, so I'd need about 30 GB of space right?

[LeFizzy]

Yes,but you need a partition for installed packages. (both for Linux and for Windows). I did the same, installed the Kali on 9.0GB ext4 partition, and it's always warn me with low disk space. /and I still ignore/ :D

[Mirco De Zorzi]

Well, I was hoping to install games on Win10, and on the kali partition install all programs for school. Unfortunatly the computer only has a 256 SSD so I might be forced to use wine :/ Thank anyways.

[Stephen Harris]

Then as a "guess", 50Gb for Kali and 200Gb for Windows may work :-) Depends on how big your school programs end up being.

[Mirco De Zorzi]

I just realized that my laptop has an extra memory slot ... Guess I'm buying an other 256 SSD :D