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This part of GNU/Linux makes me very uncomfortable. I still don't get it and I'm struggling to understand why. I will keep researching partitioning going forward. Thanks for the video but honestly alot of it went over my head which is frustrating and not your fault.
Chris: pops out
Chris: LINUX
I thought I knew everything about installing Unix-like systems, then I tried custom partitioning FreeBSD 12 like I do Linux and then it didn't work… but, I learned that / is only about a hundred MB, /usr is about 12GB, and /var doesn't need more than about 30GB, and that FreeBSD refuses to use a /boot slice. Also that in FreeBSD, they are called "slices," not partitions.
Which means, if I were to do another linux install on my machine in the future, I would honestly make the partition map something like:
/biosboot – 1 MiB
/boot/efi – 512 MiB
/usr – 20 GB
/var – 30 GB
/ – 100 MiB
swap – anywhere from 18GB to 48 GB (I am using 27GB of RAM currently and really see no need to have more than that)
/home – everything else
could you maybe make a video on an advanced hard drive scheme like btrfs and lvm in terms of system snapshots. I ended up down the lvm rabbit hole when i installed fedora and stuck with it when i broke it (bumblebee vs nouveau issues) and went over to arch
Always home on separate drive (not partition). You can swap distros and you have 95% of configurations almost right after install.
Fstab is so hard to understand completely…
So which is the C drive?
Either your mic settings are off, or you are too far from the mic – you sound …….distant. Please check your settings. (during the intro / other parts of the video)
UEFI has been supported long enough to be considered mature, but I often find myself just defaulting to legacy as it works just fine for me. Sure there are advantages over legacy, but until I hit the wall for legacy limitations, I will keep using legacy.
Well, you totally lost me. I just bought MiniTool Pro and I was looking for tips. Maybe for a tech expert this is OK but for me it was way over my head. Thanks , but it is too fast to follow.
Hey Chris,
Looks like I guessed right. I ran into the uefi vs boot partition on the LFS install. After a lot of lookin around, I decided the boot partition was the uefi partition. I haven't finished the install yet, no time. Anyway, your video clarified that for me. Love your videos.
Good stuff bro. I know of this stuff but not as concrete as you just explained. Very thorough and details I was previously murky on are crystal clear, thanks again!
Chris you need a "MICROPHONE POP FILTER" to place in front of your mic for an echo free audio .. 👍👍👍😁
Can you please make a video about the pros and cons of using swap as partition or as file?
I loved the whack-a-mole intro
How can I cast linux desktop via wifi to a Phillps Smart TV? Easy with android. Any suggestions or tutorials. All roads seem to lead back to Samsung. BTW. 5 years on linux. Thanks for your content.
Your face is a problem! Don’t want to see it all of the time. You are forcing it in many ways on my channel in thumbnails. Don’t want to see it. Remove your face! Just you and that face! No!
Fantastic subject, but we need so much more information, especially with the newer drives (ssd) coming out, and the memory chip cards on some laptops. I went crazy setting up boot partitions on these chips. Thank goodness for the older MBR on spin disks for simplicity. Interesting they called it sda1 on GPT.
You can actually recognize the fact that the FAT32 partition is the UEFI partition, by looking at the flags to the right where it states esp which means EFI System Partition.
The 0 0 is actually relevant as the first 0 tells your whether a partition needs to dumped and the second zero tells you the order of which the fsck should be run.
probably due to the size of the disk you have install the OS on an ssd right? Is it good practice to use swap to an ssd (it will shorten the ssd's life=mtbf) How much ram do you use in that system?
5:50 One correction regarding the size limits of MBR/msdos partition tables: you can get away with disks up to (almost) 4TiB in size without using GPT.
The actual limitations are:
1) partitions can't be larger than 2TiB
2) partitions must begin within the first 2TiB of a disk
E.g. a 4TB (3.6TiB) drive can have two 1.8TiB partitions on an msdos partition table.
Thank you, Chris. Great video. I'm new in Linux and I have some issue with partitioning. Trying create bootable USB stick with Linux and win10 installs using cli. It's ok with Linux install (mbr and gpt). But it's a big trouble do it for win10.
For mbr: I create dos table, add new partition, format it to ntfs, set flag to boot and copy iso into USB stick. It's not work.
And I don't know what exactly do for gpt. Do I need create UEFI part before Microsoft data?
That swap/page file when you have 64GB of RAM though… -.-'
bad audio. just can't listen to it. i tried. repost when you get it fixed.
After years of running Linux, and being forced to run Windows sometimes (getting more rare), I learned to install different operating systems on their own separate drives and boot from the bios. Indeed, when installing a new operating system, especially windows, I disconnect all other drives so the install sees nothing but the drive I tell it to install on. Windows 10 likes to trash other boot managers just because it can, and has done so on my machines when doing major updates. 1903 trashed both of my Linux installations (on separate drives, mind you), reset all of my privacy settings to Microsoft defaults, then made a big deal about re-authenticating my license.
Microsoft can kiss my ass and shove it's Microsoft accounts up its own….. If it has to run on Windows, I don't need it anymore. Period. It is simply awful.
I have Asus laptop with a fingerprint sensor built-in but I can't use it on my Pop OS! I found replacement for many things but I am not able to use my fingerprint sensor and it's quite annoying to have something but you cannot use it…So please make a video on this topic if possible
i noticed that the easiest way to set it up on UEFI is by not partitioning before you install Windows and Linux, first install Windows and then choose the option to install alongside (Calamari installer anyway) and move the slider to determine the sizes of the partitions. Then the installer figures out the mess. At first I started to split off a partition, installed Windows on one and Linux on the other. That gave a mess, I didn't get Grub to load automatically.
Hello me again it’s funny you done this video which I’m very glad you’ve done ✅ I just recently left a comment on your video you did outside your house, and it’s like your magic and read my mind, well this is exactly what I’ve had trouble with trying to dual boot Mint and Ubuntu Game Pack Os is when I tried to set up U G P os was how to properly partition the drives for it to work, this is why I gave up, I’m not sure what I have or what I’m working with, I’m new to the partitioning and need help because I’ve lost my mind on this and gave up and went back to Win.10, I don’t like it but I know it better, but I want to stick with learning Linux, I’ve paid for some videos on Learning about Linux and I’m still trying to give myself a chance to learn all this when I have the time, if you could help me figure out the partitioning on my Asus ROG, I would be very grateful and or even pay you to help me, I’m starting to feel like I’m a Pain in the A.. to you but your on to something good and I’m not a give up on type of guy, I just feel dumb,I’m lost…✌🏻
Is it pronounced f stab I'm a noob but I always assumed it was FS tab and doesn't stand for anything in particular.
What happened to sda2 (6:44)?
Thanks Chris!!
Hey Chris can you make a video comparing Swap Partition vs Swap File Pros and Cons and if you can configure the Swap file to be dynamically allocated etc Thx and love your vids I use Arch BTW
Heck, I've always done manual partitioning. Used to install Novell NetWare and that didn't give much option about that. And back in 1995 we didn't have fancy Linux partitioning tools either. Linux fdisk & mkfs was how it was done.
Calling fstab "f-stab" sounds wrong because h-stab is horizontal stabilizer and v-stab is vertical stabilizer, but there's no f-stab. There's "m-tab" for the mount table and "fs-tab" for filesystem table in the jargon I've heard.
In olden times I used to boot Linux using LOADLIN from a FAT16 partition. At one time I had DOS/Win16, WinNT and Linux together on the same HDD that way. The NT 3.51 boot loader allowed MS-DOS to boot up, but would clobber LILO, so the only way to start Linux was through LOADLIN. Back then a zImage was small enough to store on a floppy, so not a problem.
MBR can only have 4 primary partitions (number 1-4). One primary partition can be divided as subpartitions (number 5-)
GPT only have primary partitions, and you can use many (number 1-)
hi, im new on linux and i saw alot of your videos to start the transition and i was wondering if i could have one SSD for ubuntu and 1 HD for other stuff like installing games or more heavy programs that i need!? wow its like 80GB plus overwatch and Mhunter and a tons of other games that work on linux and i like to play! is it possible ?? on windows is easy i just chose the directory on the installation but on linux i dont know. i really would like to see you talking about that on a video. keep up the nice videos and thanks for all your information for people like me.
Legacy is a loop boot you UEFI is a dual boot partition.
I can't run Linux on UEFI mode on my computer after updating my BIOS. Downgrading my BIOS did not help. Will never buy an ASUS motherboard again.
Endlasting GPT goodbye DOS
Do I mark a legacy /boot Ext 4 or fat 32 since I have more than one choice?
For Linux Only installs, NO Windows Dual Boot UEFI
Use Legacy/GPT, Then you can have up to 128 Primary Partitions and use > 2.0TB Disks
Use "GPARTED"
Set Disk Partition Table "GPT", then create first partition 128MB unformatted and set Flags to "bios_grub" , then define the rest of your partitions as you will
Exit GPARTED,
Start Installer, Other
Install to the pre created Partitions do not format/change the "bios_grub" partition
set the boot loader to /dev/sdX where X is the "device", "NOT" partition where the "bios_grub" is located ie "sda" "not" sda1
Good video. Thanks chris.
This seems to go against everything I've been taught and practiced. For a MBR disk with a Linux install, I've always done the following 4 partitions: Boot, Root, Swap, Home. Is this somehow no longer general practice?
Bro you're the best linux channel
Bro, this is a beginner question. But help me out please..
I want to install Linux on my win 10 laptop. I added an nvme 250GB ssd and now like to install and run Linux in that smoothly. I also want to keep all the other locations like home and other software installations on the HDD .. I don't care about the win10 which is already in my HDD.
I installed Linux mint on the ssd but it gets full quickly. Now it's not loading to Linux desktop. I want to run only the os on the SSD and the rest to be saved on the HDD. Please help bro…