If you are a new user, you usually use the entire disk or install side by side or whatever the hell it is. But they also have this advance feature which I don’t know if a lot of people use, maybe they don’t really use it but it is actually better for you. Let me explain why.
You can separate your OS from your data, so how is that convenient? It is convenient because later down the road if you want to update or fresh install whatever or even if you want to use other distro, you are not going to lose your data. You are just going to lose your OS and all the other programs on it but you can get it back easily. So this is what I use because when you are updating to a new Ubuntu I like to do it fresh installed. That is just the way I like it and even if you have another distro like another Linux distro like mint or a Fedora or whatever, maybe not Fedora but mint.
You can actually use them both and they both can store the data on slash home which is almost all the Linux distro uses to store their data at slash home. So that is some of the reasons why you would want to use the advance feature. So let us get to it where we have rich box here. So this is the advanced. Now in here they have your hard drive so a typical install would have one hard drive so that’s what we are going to do, make a new partition table. Now in here I have a 20 gig of RAM, 20GBs as my hard drive. So what you have to do is make a new partition here and for your primary up here in when you make the OS.
The OS will probably need like 6 gigs or up. If you have a bigger hard drive, I will say 20 gigs is on a regular Linux. That is all you really need but maximum will probably be 50, if you are going to use like a lot of programs or you want to use like another desktop and parameters of data then I’ll say double the 50 gigs is minimum. But ultimately, if you are no more user 20 gigs is all you need for an OS.
Let us say I don’t have a big hard drive here. I am going to use the minimum which is probably like 10 gigs. It is 10,000 megabytes, so that is 10 gigs or something around there and you wanted to set it at the beginning. The beginning in here is I believe the outer side of the plates. That is too much technical field but you want the beginning because it’s faster and you can choose your partition. Let us say ext4 which is the new one and you want to mount this as slash. They have some option here, the slash is like C drive in the Windows so slash and that is the root, so you click OK.
Use that upright and now we still have free space because when we use the half hard drive. So what we are going to do is most people want to separate their boot or they crap louder also. So we are going to make new partition and do that too and I will say make it local I guess not primary. And all you really need is probably like 32 megabytes and you want that in the beginning or end, it doesn’t really matter and I guess the ext4 and when I separate boot, click OK. The boot is where you select which operating system you want like if you have Windows, Ubuntu, Fedora and Prevo, whatever the hell it is. Some people like to separate that, I just start using it. Before I didn’t really need to use it but now it fells like it is convenient.
So we still have free space here, okay? And what we are going to do now is put the partition for your swap. Now if you don’t have a lot of RAM, let us say 512 like what I put on this virtual machine then you would double that. If you have 512, you are going to have doubling that it will be like a gig, right? Yes, it is a gig, because 512 times two and you are going to go down in the swap area, okay. I would say you put this at the end that is why I have to put it out and make sure that it is swap area. There is no partition for the swap area and the swap area is basically like hard drive RAM when your real RAM runs out and you don’t use that. So it is better to have that than not, if you don’t have a lot of RAM to begin with.
If you have like 4 gigs then I will say just use maybe one gig or not to use at all but I will say one gig or like half of that so that is two gigs. So we have that and the rest is basically your home folder. So you put on new partition and the rest you know doesn’t really matter with ext4 of course or you want an ext3 it doesn’t really matter but if you want to be consistent on ext4 and you can slash home here.
Now, don’t get confuse, you can write like anything you want here if you want to do that but this is a typical installer. So slash home and slash home is where we are going to put our data on. So this user is going to be larger than your OS, so in this case it is not because I didn’t put a large hard drive space for this virtual box. So that is probably it for this and remember, when it comes to partition I believe that the smaller it is the faster it is and when you separate it one partition does not affect the other so that is basic, some of the things you might want to know about that and that is partly pretty much it for this basic install.
Now if you have like another hard drive or whatever the case is a little bit complicated to sort out but it is basic as the same principles here. You want to separate it, you want to name it, then mount point exactly how you would want it when you are using the OS like let’s say if you have like another hard drive that you want to use for a data storage so you probably can not name it slash media slash Linux two or something. So this is just the basic install or basic partition for a single hard drive.
So that is it. Hopefully I don’t confuse you if you understood everything then great. So that’s all.
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