On 10/3/2025 5:04 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 10/3/25 3:22 PM, home user via users wrote:
On 10/3/2025 4:00 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 10/3/25 10:55 AM, home user via users wrote:
I tried the installation a short while ago. I got lost. As I
mentioned at the start of the original thread, I have not been able
to find instructions for a non-default installation from live media.
The bios has been updated. The live media is ready.
What I want:
* on the 1 TB drive:
> 3 GB for /boot (I'm guessing that should exclude /boot/efi).
> whatever (default) for /boot/efi.
> the rest (almost 997? GB) for all the other syetem directories.
* on the 4 TB drive:
> all for /home.
I was unable to figure out what to do in the live media screen
where disk(s) are set up. I abandoned the install.
How do I do this?
I don't understand why you want to do that, but click the menu in
the top-right corner to access the manual disk tool. That
partitioning basically wastes your entire SSD.
Actually, I did get that far. But I did/do not know how to fill out
that screen.
On the installation method screen, under Destination, make sure both
drives are listed. If not, click "Change destination" and select both.
That was the first thing I got wrong. I thought it was only asking
where to put the operating system (not user space). So I only selected
the 1 TB device.
Launch the storage editor from the top-right menu.
I expect you'll have a "nvme0n1" and a "sda" listed. Click the menu
to the right of each one and create partition table. GPT is the default.
Click the menu for the nmve free space and create partition. Set the
type to efi and the size to 500MB. Give it a name if you want.
done.
Click the menu for the nmve free space and create partition. Set the
name to "root", mount point "/", and type to btrfs (or ext4 if you
really want). Since you're not using encryption, you don't need a
separate partition for /boot and this way you don't need to worry
about space.
While waiting for this, it came back to my memory that one or more
posters to this list had suggested not making /boot a separate
partition. Not having /boot separate would seem to provide more
flexibility. I wonder what (if any) risks and costs there are to going
that route. But I'll try it.
I had a little trouble with this. I think it was because /boot + /
added up to over 1 TB. After fumbling around, I got /boot down by 1
GB. That did it, though 1/2 GB is wasted. No big deal.
done.
Click the menu for sda free space and create partition. Set the name
to "home", mount point "/home" and type to btrfs (or ext4).
done.
Click return to installation. You should get a dialog box saying the
layout is valid. Continue. You'll be back to the main installer and
you can continue as usual.
It worked!
Thank-you, Samuel!
I recall the 1 TB on the old desktop getting quite full (in addition
to /boot) - old application bins, logs, and I don't remember what
else. I suppose some things just didn't get cleaned out as they
should. More than once, I had to do some serious clean-up other
than in /boot. I'd rather have meaningful "pad" than suddenly and
frequently having not-enough-space emergencies.
That must have been things in /home because I can't imagine how you
would fill 1TB with just /.
I'm more than 95% certain it was not in /home. It was a bunch of
directories somewhere in system space. They were full of libraries
and/or binaries and/or scripts. I recall someone in previous threads
providing scripts to automate the clean-up. Unfortunately, searching
the list does not work properly, and I don't know what to search for.
I've also had to do a huge clean-up of logs years ago.
Regardless, the new install is done.
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