I have 53 gigabytes that need formating into /root, /swap, /usr/, /var, /home, and /tmp. If there's any help what is the best space allocation? Please let me know. 
Partioning free space for manual install
linux mint;partition;system installation
For my 40GB SSD drive, I partition the swap partition to be the same as my memory (i.e., I have 2GB of RAM, so is the swap partition.) I reserve about 10GB for /root, and the rest goes to /home. For your case, I think:Swap partition as said14GB for /The rest for /homeI personally think partitioning for /usr, /var, and /tmp is too much trouble.