Bdtyktl

I have only three partitions:

Swap (13.5 GB), Root (70 GB) and Home (150 GB).

Note: This is Ubuntu 18.10 dual booted with Windows 10.

I have 8 GB of RAM. Intel i5 processor.

• I have heard about other partition tables like Temp, etc. So I was
  hoping to create some partition to resolve this.




• Or maybe I need to increase Swap memory.




• P.S: I don't want my PC to crash because it can't handle things. Sometimes I can't even use my cursor because it's responding too slow! There gotta be some way to solve this.




• (This issue generated when I used TestDisk to recover my hard
  disk.)

Some outputs which might be helpful:

pranav@inspiron-5548:~$ inxi -Fxz

System:

  Host: inspiron-5548 

  Kernel: 4.18.0-15-generic x86_64 bits: 64 

  compiler: gcc v: 8.2.0 Desktop: Gnome 3.30.1 

  Distro: Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) 

Machine:

  Type: Portable System: Dell 

  product: Inspiron 5548 v: A09 

  serial: <filter> 

  Mobo: Dell model: 0FFJC4 v: A00 

  serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: A09 

  date: 05/15/2018 

Battery:

  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 12.4 Wh 

  condition: 15.0/44.5 Wh (34%) 

  model: SDI DELL VVMKC52A status: Discharging 

CPU:

  Topology: Dual Core 

  model: Intel Core i5-5200U bits: 64 

  type: MT MCP arch: Broadwell rev: 4 

  L2 cache: 3072 KiB 

  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 

  ssse3 vmx 

  bogomips: 17559 

  Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 500/2700 MHz 

  Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798 3: 798 

  4: 798 

Graphics:

  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 

  driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 

  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.1 

  driver: fbdev unloaded: modesetting,vesa 

  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 

  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 

  5500 (Broadwell GT2) 

  v: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.2 direct render: Yes 

Audio:

  Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio 

  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 

  bus ID: 00:03.0 

  Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High 

  Definition Audio 

  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 

  bus ID: 00:1b.0 

  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.18.0-15-generic 

Network:

  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast 

  Ethernet 

  driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000 

  bus ID: 02:00.0 

  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter> 

  Device-2: Intel Wireless 3160 

  driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.0 

  IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 

  IF-ID-1: wlxd46e0e0f6870 state: up 

  mac: <filter> 

Drives:

  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB 

  used: 54.83 GiB (5.9%) 

  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba 

  model: MQ01ABD100 size: 931.51 GiB 

  temp: 29 C 

Partition:

  ID-1: / size: 74.60 GiB 

  used: 15.50 GiB (20.8%) fs: ext4 

  dev: /dev/sda6 

  ID-2: /home size: 125.69 GiB 

  used: 39.29 GiB (31.3%) fs: ext4 

  dev: /dev/sda7 

  ID-3: swap-1 size: 13.26 GiB 

  used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5 

Sensors:

  System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A 

  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 

Info:

  Processes: 247 Uptime: 18m Memory: 7.71 GiB 

  used: 2.42 GiB (31.3%) Init: systemd 

  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.2.0 

  Shell: bash v: 4.4.19 inxi: 3.0.24 

There isn't a way round that I'm afraid unless you upgrade your processor etc. to complete the tasks quicker. If your recovering the hard disk whilst it's in use it's always going to slow down the system, as you say it's a heavy workload. Partitioning isn't going to give you a magic speed boost I'm afraid because again it's on the disk, again the swap partition is using space on the hard drive as virtual ram so is also going to be significantly slower than actual ram and not really create any boost in speed during any workload and especially not during heavy workloads. Recovering any disk particularly if it's the main hard drive of the system in use is always best done when you can just set it off and leave it to finish by itself.