[SOLVED] can't create a partition with cfdisk

[soft summit]

First time arch user.

[patent fern]

@soft summit try parted/fdisk

[floral grove]

you need to write changes to the partition table @soft summit

press "write" and type yes

remember that will permanently change the partitions

[patent fern]

@soft summit

[soft summit]

I did

[floral grove]

did you type: yes

?

[soft summit]

Yes

[floral grove]

weird

try rebooting, if that doesnt work just use parted or fdisk

[soft summit]

welp looks like fdisk time

[floral grove]

pain

wait try cfdisk again, after the reboot, and see if it works, if it doesnt well....

pain.

[soft summit]

Nope

[floral grove]

yeah, fdisk time

[soft summit]

this guide im watching for fdisk isn't making a swap partition, how do i make one

[floral grove]

i think you should learn how to use fdisk, you just need to make a partition, make it swap and swapon

[soft summit]

ehhhh lsblk works now

[floral grove]

nice

did you manage to make a swap partition?

[soft summit]

i think

i did mkswap /devnvme0n1p3
and swapon /dev/nvme0n1p3

should i encrypt my drive?

the guide is going through that

[floral grove]

nice

[floral grove]

idk

i dont know how that works

i wouldnt, but unless you care about that you should

[soft summit]

question, how bad is it that i did the non uefi mount on accident when im using uefi?

[floral grove]

i never did that lol

how did you even manage to do that

[soft summit]

i read the wrong one

[floral grove]

can you send the tutorial?

[soft summit]

so i found a tutorial for fdisk and then i swapped back over to the installation guide

[floral grove]

oh

im not an expert, but try doing it, if something goes wrong delete the partition and reinstall

pain.

[soft summit]

partition /mnt too full not enough free space

pain

[floral grove]

dang

[floral grove]

can you continue to help this guy? i will have to leave rn

[thin pine]

When you’re setting the type just type “swap” i believe

[soft summit]

oh right

i got it fixed

[thin pine]

Nice

[soft summit]

i just did it via cgdisk

that worked for some reason

[raw fjord]

... solved

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