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bitter lintel May 5, 2026, 4:16 AM

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I would like to dual boot linux mint and CachyOS

How do i go about it in terms of partitioning?

I have 8TB hard drive

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No partitions created I should add from scratch

bitter lintel May 5, 2026, 6:57 AM

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8TB hard drive

-Partitions-

EFI 1000MIB
Root BTFRS 3.65TIB -> CachyOS
Swap 8GIB
Root EXT4 3.62TIB -> LMDE
Am I missing anything?

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or this is the correct partition layout eg proper way

karmic bobcat May 5, 2026, 2:03 PM

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I think you'd be better off to install cachy OS first. (only need 2-300 MB EFI partition)

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the rest is fine. ensure drive is gpt formatted

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if you use BTRFS, I think you need an ext4 boot partition . I'd say let cachy do an automatic install. You can shrink stuff later from LMDE live boot before installing LMDE

bitter lintel May 5, 2026, 2:49 PM

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Yeah for mint it switched from btrfs to ext4 after manual creation as no @home set

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or it uses ext4 by default 🤔

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