What does
df -h
say right now?
#Linux Mint XFCE Manual Partitions
broken quiver
Yes
lofty thistle
Yes
The thing is, I don't have mint installed rn. I am booting it from the USB to reinstall and remake the partitions
broken quiver
Ok, then why not just use "erase disk and install" option?
lofty thistle
Ok, then why not just use "erase disk and install" option?
Cause I'm trying to do the manual partitions
With the '/' and '/home' separated
broken quiver
Well yes, I meant what's the reason for separate home?
lofty thistle
People told me I should do that, I didn't want to do that cause I thought it was kinda useless but then my install broke out of nothing and I have to reinstall it, so I thought it would be great if I didn't have to reinstall the os and backup all of my files everytime
broken quiver
Hmm..... well that's what timeshift is for, you make snapshots and restore them if something breaks
lofty thistle
Oh!
Man I forgot about time shifts!
I mean, now what should I do? Have them separated or just install everything on the root?
I'm sorry for my ignorance, kinda new to Linux
broken quiver
Unless you plan to distrohop or something, I'd leave it to "erase disk and install mint" option
lofty thistle
I actually want to try that. Ik I have a 128gb drive so it's limiting but maybe try one or two distros won't be that bad
copper hare
use entire disk
lofty thistle
And i can't upgrade that drive since I'm on a laptop
copper hare
dont bother with swap since mint makes a 2 gig swap file (to which you may add a second swap file if you insist)
run lsblk -o name,model,size,rota to see ur drive info
lofty thistle
So I should just go with "erase disk and install"?
lofty thistle
run `lsblk -o name,model,size,rota` to see ur drive info
Ok
copper hare
side note: 25 is rather too small as a root partition. all programs now and in future install into root
lofty thistle
side note: 25 is rather too small as a root partition. all programs now and in ...
Yes that was my concern
What should I do?
copper hare
run `lsblk -o name,model,size,rota` to see ur drive info
show
lofty thistle
I mean it is a laptop so I guess they used an SSD
lofty thistle
copper hare
uefi
lofty thistle
Thank you for helping btw
copper hare
It's up to you, if you have a great deal of home files to keep?
lofty thistle
I mean.. this isn't a great PC so I'm not gonna store much in it. Probably light games, customizations and YT stuff
copper hare
so exactly half is 59.6
broken quiver
"Entire disk" method should work fine, just setup timeshift next time
copper hare
if you want to go separates, go 100 MB efi, 75 GB root, and the rest for home
lofty thistle
if you want to go separates, go 100 MB efi, 75 GB root, and the rest for home
Ok
Should I manually add the swap partition?
broken quiver
No
copper hare
no
run sudo swapoff -a in live
since it's likely already locked any existent swap
@lofty thistle
lofty thistle
Okk thank you
copper hare
u can check later once installed , with cat /proc/swaps what it's using
lofty thistle
Ok thank you
I will try this in a minute. Thanks for helping!!
@copper hare
So i should do the partitions
EFI = 100 mb
Root = 75 GB
Home = ~ 53 GB (the rest)
Right?
copper hare
if that adds up, sure