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| LiveLubuntu | I never installed a MacOS/Linux dual boot before, so I'm not sure what size should I give to the partitions (boot, root, swap and home). Any recommendations based on the following partitions/unallocated space? https://postimg.cc/3yBQ0tTg I will install Lubuntu 24.04.1 LTS (Noble Numbat) | 17:24 |
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| eyeoh | LiveLubuntu: that link doesn't appear to work | 18:08 |
| eyeoh | oh, I have to click download | 18:08 |
| eyeoh | how odd | 18:08 |
| eyeoh | the kind of allocation for dual booting really is a personal preference based on how much you use each OS | 18:09 |
| eyeoh | on my 2020 X1C ThinkPad, it's a 500G drive with 128G for Windows 11 and the rest for Debian Stable | 18:09 |
| eyeoh | For boot, I'd recommend something like 1GB. And the rest as a single root system (/home underneath /) | 18:10 |
| eyeoh | you may choose to create a separate swap partition, or just keep it flexible with a swap file | 18:10 |
| eyeoh | I personally have a 16G swap partition in addition to my 16G RAM. I mainly use that for hibernation. Note that you don't need a full RAM's worth of swap for hibernation - just enough to handle what's in use, I think | 18:11 |
| eyeoh | if you're somewhat 'advanced' with Linux, you might like to consider a filesystem such as btrfs or zfs - which allows you to have subvolumes. Subvolumes can act both like partitions as well as directories | 18:12 |
| eyeoh | this means you still get that separation like you would with separate / and /home, but without 'wasted' space | 18:12 |
| eyeoh | those copy on write filesystems aren't really for beginners though. some minimal maintenance might be required | 18:13 |
| eyeoh | some recommended schemes are here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Partitioning | 18:15 |
| eyeoh | including https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Partitioning#Example_layouts | 18:15 |
| eyeoh | there's not a lot of difference between using a swap file and a swap partition, although a swap partition tends to be easier to figure out. If you create it on the right hand side of the disk, this also means you can use that as emergency space should you need to create a new /boot or whatever, etc | 18:16 |
| eyeoh | I personally prefer to have a separate swap. It doesn't cost that much extra SSD space really | 18:17 |
| eyeoh | I would perhaps reconsider having an even split between macOS and Linux - it seems unlikely you'll devote equal time to both | 18:17 |
| LiveLubuntu | The Mac partition is almost full with around 12 GB left | 18:30 |
| LiveLubuntu | I also received a recommendation of just using the "Replace a partition" and selecting the unallocated free space (The "Install alongside" option is not available). | 18:36 |
| eyeoh | you need an external drive at least, as well as one for backup | 18:44 |
| LiveLubuntu | Why an external drive? | 18:57 |
| LiveLubuntu | What about this partitioning? https://i.postimg.cc/1X774kF9/screenshot-install.jpg | 19:05 |
| LiveLubuntu | The sda1 partition (boot) looks really thin at 200 MB, but maybe I could resize it later | 19:06 |
| eyeoh | that screenshot doesn't tell me much | 19:33 |
| eyeoh | 200MB is too small for /boot these days | 19:34 |
| eyeoh | you want an external drive because you always can do with extra free space to shove less important things, or backups | 19:34 |
| eyeoh | no matter how big your replacement drive is, you always need extra for backup that isn't a part of the machine | 19:34 |
| eyeoh | you're struggling right now with 500GB and dual booting | 19:34 |
| eyeoh | 18:30:54 <LiveLubuntu> The Mac partition is almost full with around 12 GB left | 19:35 |
| eyeoh | why is it almost full? | 19:35 |
| LiveLubuntu | There are plenty of personal files in the Mac partition and 12 GB isn't much, but I believe I can free some space later | 19:42 |
| eyeoh | well yeah, an extra drive would make that easier, especially if the bulk of it is video | 20:07 |
| eyeoh | partition schemes are tricky and personaly; you kind of just have to try it out, and ensure you have good backups | 20:08 |
| eyeoh | if you have backups, you can do anything | 20:08 |
| eyeoh | make sure they're reliable backups too; so two backups if you're going to do any wiping | 20:08 |
| eyeoh | having two OSs share a third partition is another option | 20:08 |
| eyeoh | picking one that's compatible with both macOS and linux can be tricky though | 20:09 |
| LiveLubuntu | Installation is over... Let's reboot and see what we got | 20:23 |
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