Hello ! I am actually running a dual boot with Windows and Arch. I have 5 disks (3 HDD and 2 nvme SSD) with this partitioning. These are the drives : HDDs :
- WD Blue 2 TB hdd (5400 RPM)
- WD Blue 1TB hdd (7200 RPM)
- Seagate Barracuda 2TB hdd (7200 RPM) SSDs :
- Samsung 870 evo 512GB
- Kingston A1000 256GB
And this is the partition scheme that I used so far
- Windows
- 512 GB SSD => NTFS for the OS
- 2 TB HDD (Seagate one) => NTFS for games
- 1TB out of the other 2 TB (Wd blue) drive (Backups) NTFS
- Linux
- 256 GB SSD => ext4 for the OS
- 1 TB HDD => ext4 for data and games
- 1TB out of the other 2 TB drive (Backups) ext4
Some problems that I encounter are disk space problems on the Linux SSD because sometimesvI want to install demanding games on it.
Do you have any advice on what I can do to make this scheme better?
Thank you in advance.
Your Windows and Linux partition can share drives for games if you want to save space. You may run into permission issues sometimes but they’re easy to solve.
The Linux partition can even load games from Windows OS partition.
@CarlosCheddar @Written2323 Important, if you share partitions with win und linux: disable fast boot on Windows or else Linux won’t be able to access that partition.
This worked for me until recently. Since a windows update my drive has been completely locked despite disabled fast boot. I am currently struggling to find solutions to unlock it again but nothing works…