Example of partitions

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Hello, could someone give me an example of which partitions to create for a manual installation of Ubuntu Budgie, for example, preparing the partitions first with GParted.

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Hi @satos,

You’re right, it’s best to prepare your partitions with GParted, which is clearer, visually speaking.

Here’s what I suggested to a friend to get the most out of his HP 15-bw018nf computer — he chose to remove W10.

The EFI partition and the system (“/”) on the “sdb” SSD and the “/home” partition on the “sda” HDD:

lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT| grep -v loop | grep -v zram

NAME FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT
sda 931,5G
└─sda1 ext4 930G /home
sdb 119,2G
├─sdb1 vfat 512M /boot/efi
└─sdb2 ext4 118G /

But on a single medium, 512 MB for the EFI partition — you never know, you might want to try distributions like Solus or Aeryn that put their kernels there — and 80 GB/100 GB for a single “/” partition, that’s something to look forward to.
In fact, it all depends on the volume of personal heavy documents (music, videos…) you intend to store.

I’d also advise you to keep Windows to start with a dualboot, especially as Linux can read and write Windows partitions, which Windows can’t.
That’s what I suggested to another friend, and he’s very happy with his system.

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Hi, it’s just to install Linux (500 GB disk). What do you think about this:
partition /boot (300 MB)
SWAP partition (8 GB) the PC has 32 GB RAM
root partition / (40 GB)
/home partition (400 GB)
timeshift partition (the same size as root (40 GB))

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Why didn’t you say so? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Just two comments:

  • I’d still put 512 MB for the “/boot” partition to give you the freedom to try out other distributions.

  • No more need for a “swap” partition, the installer now takes care of creating a swap file based on the amount of RAM it has found on the computer.

For the rest, with a separate “/home” partition, 40 GB should be sufficient for the root “/” partition.
As for the partition reserved for Timeshift, I suppose that’s enough: rather than this application, I’d prefer to turn to immutable distributions, such as Fedora Budgie Atomic, to keep the Budgie desktop:

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Thanks for the contribution. I have no idea about Fedora Budgie Atomic. Is it like Timeshift? Is it installed as an application and used to save a copy of the OS? I’m going to install it to try it out.
Best regards.

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No, it’s a theoretically unbreakable distribution, like NixOS or Vanilla OS, for example.

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Okay, I didn’t know that, I’ll give it a try.