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Linux Mint 22 installation with a separate Home partition--It’s “Something else”! (PART 2)

Posted 07-25-2024 at 07:20 PM by beachboy2
Updated 07-26-2024 at 01:25 AM by beachboy2

Tags home, install, mint, partitioning, something-else

Link to PART 1 of blog:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...og.php?b=39212

You may be using a new drive, or your drive has been wiped.

GParted is one of the most useful computer tools ever and, in my opinion, the best bootable disk partitioning program.
It is possible to delete, format, resize, copy, and hide any partition recognised by GParted.

Download the GParted Live amd64 ISO:
https://gparted.org/download.php
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Linux Mint 22 installation with a separate Home partition--It’s “Something else”! (PART 1)

Posted 07-25-2024 at 07:14 PM by beachboy2
Updated 08-23-2024 at 09:33 AM by beachboy2

Tags home, installation, mint22, partitioning, something-else

(I am obliged to split this blog into 2 parts because of the restriction of a maximum of 5 attachments per LQ blog).

Link to PART 2 of this blog:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...og.php?b=39213

In my opinion, having a separate Home partition makes life much simpler in the future when installing a newer version of Linux Mint or another distro.
It is then only necessary to change the root (system) partition whilst still using the existing...

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A word on partitioning and permissions (for newbies)

Posted 09-06-2019 at 07:53 AM by zeebra

Tags backup, partitioning, permissions

Unless you are completely new to GNU/Linux and/or have no idea what you are doing, ALWAYS use 1. manual partition setup when installing a distro! If you don't you have absolutely no control over what happens, you learn nothing, you (probably) end up with a bad setup and you can't plan for persistence. Besides that, auto-partitioning will usually whipe your whole disk!

There are other setups as well across various distroes, don't use these! MANUAL PARTITIONING IS WHAT YOU WANT. It's...

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