QUOTE(Super-hujan86 @ Mar 19 2019, 17:48)

Is 256GB free space too much for Fedora installation?
Short answer: yes 10G is enough for you to boot into it. 250G is about the right size if you wanna do something with it. But whichever never give only one partition to Linux.
First, let's talk about partition. It's not the same as Windows partition (C:, D:, etc). A linux partition can be mounted at any directory, eg, / and /home are on different partitions, but a user may never notice it.
Good partitioning takes into account maintainability, disk utility, security etc. On dual boot PC, I only also take into account the interoperability with windows.
More specifically, I listed them as follows
Maintainability: user / system seperation. You can swap out user home partition without killing the system, or install another system without wiping user data.
Utility / Performace: Block size dictates the overhead of a file, and the access speed. Small text files in one partition with small block size (like 500K), large media, zip archives in another with bigger block size (like 4MB).
Basic setup
50G to /, standard block size, EXT4
250G to /home, standard block size, EXT4
Advanced:
50G to /mnt/winshare (name is not important), large block, FAT32
2G to /boot
2G to swap
This post has been edited by shebang: Mar 22 2019, 05:31