Linux Storage: Avoid These Common Mistakes When Working on Partitions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7jwQrwPkyY&t=230s​

So without re-installing, but using the liveUSB with GPARTED as advised here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7jwQrwPkyY&t=230s I ended up from Left to Right on the GParted illustration of a harddrive

GMKtec Mini PC Intel i5-12450H(Turbo 4.4 GHz) 32GB DDR4 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD
5 PARTITIONS​


2mb unallocated free space
300mb fat32 boot,esp
~500,000 mb main kubuntu drive with only about hardly anymore than 13.5 gigabytes in the default installation
~ 30,000 mb SWAP
~441,000 MB EXTRA ext4/ with no particular label with pretty much 2mb free blank space at the start

Can someone tell me an ideal and optimal partition scheme for this? Does it matter if I separate /home and /root partitions at all much?​

The size and number of partitions are choices of the user installing and depend upon the use case. Hibernating, using a lot of graphics for whatever reason may require it. Kubuntu probably creates a swapfile rather than a swap partition with newer releases. You can run the command: ls / and the output will show whether you have a swapfile. You can change a swap partition after install. The link below to the ubuntu.com site discusses swap partitions/file in detail.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq​
Originally posted by lvm_
EFI - not EFI/boot but just EFI, must be a separate partition because it's FAT, everything else doesn't. Partitioning is an artificial barrier which sooner or later you would like to move and it won't be easy, that's why modern distros install everything to root by default. There might be minor advantages in having separate partition for home, but separate swap and boot rightfully belong to the past. And there is also LVM.

It defaulted at 300mb and it's flagged as ---"
-boot, esp
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Original Poster Rep: 		"separate swap and boot rightfully belong to the past." Why? or Why Not?
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separate swap and boot rightfully belong to the past.
Why? or Why Not?

Great, right after I made a swap partition and an extra partition anyways.
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