LinuxQuestions.org - Installing on a new hard drive

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Originally Posted by enginestar (Post 5880962)

'manually partitioning': i assume this is using gparted, then installing and choosing one of the ready made partitions?

Whether done in advance of beginning an installation , or using the partitioner integrated into a distro's installation system, manually means you select the sizes and order and formatting and mount points rather than the installer "suggesting" or dictating any or all of these.

The 120GB Mushkin SSD I bought last month I fully partitioned in advance for multiboot without windows thus:

Code:

# parted -l /dev/sda

Model: ATA MKNSSDSR120GB (scsi)

Disk /dev/sda: 120GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Disk Flags:



Number  Start  End    Size    File system    Name                        Flags

 1      1049kB  337MB  336MB  fat16          M12P01 EFI System (ESP)    boot, esp

 2      337MB  2174MB  1837MB  linux-swap(v1)  M12P02 Linux Swap          swap

 3      2174MB  2593MB  419MB  ext2            M12P03 Linux reservation

 4      2593MB  6787MB  4194MB  ext4            M12P04 Linux /usr/local

 5      6787MB  13.5GB  6711MB  ext4            M12P05 Linux /home

 6      13.5GB  26.7GB  13.2GB  ext4            M12P06 Linux /pub

 7      26.7GB  35.1GB  8389MB  ext4            M12P07 openSUSE Tumbleweed

 8      35.1GB  43.5GB  8389MB  ext4            M12P08 openSUSE 15.0

 9      43.5GB  51.9GB  8389MB  ext4            M12P09 available

10      51.9GB  60.3GB  8389MB  ext4            M12P10 Debian 10 Butch

11      60.3GB  68.7GB  8389MB  ext4            M12P11 Debian 10 Fat Butch

12      68.7GB  77.0GB  8389MB  ext4            M12P12 Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic

13      77.0GB  85.4GB  8389MB  ext4            M12P13 Debian 10 Butch 02

14      85.4GB  93.8GB  8389MB  ext4            M12P14 Buster mini mini

15      93.8GB  102GB  8389MB  ext4            M12P15 Buster standard

16      102GB  111GB  8389MB  ext4            M12P16 Linux Data todo

The sizes may look a bit odd. That's because I use a non-free cross-platform partitioner in which sizes are normally specified and listed in MiB instead of MB. In MiB their sizes are: 320,1752,400,4000,6400,12600,8000,8000,8000,8000,8000,8000,8000,8000,8000,8000.

What sizes you should use depends on how much you will rely on Windows, which needs more space than Linux largely because of its large swap and hibernation files. 48 or so GB should be enough for Win10 if you don't expect to load it with downloads and games. That would leave about 72GB for the rest if you can live without any Windows recovery partition, which I always do. Follows should be suitable for two distros in addition to Win10:

Code:

320MB FAT EFI/ESP

16MB Windows reserved

48GB Windows system NTFS

 8GB swap

18GB Linux distro / #1 EXT4

18GB Linux distro / #2 EXT4

27GB Linux /home EXT4 or XFS