Can someone walk me through how to increase the size of the root partition at install?

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Christianity
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Beigetreten: 10/09/2012

I'd rather have it be ~25-30gb than the default which is around half that. Unfortunately I have no idea what I'm doing when I look at the installer options.

lembas
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Beigetreten: 05/13/2010

You need to select custom partitioning (might be manual partitioning) during install. Attaching a screeny of the probable first step to the right direction.

https://trisquel.info/files/trisquel1_0.png

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Christianity
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Beigetreten: 10/09/2012

Sorry, I should have specified that I had figured out that step - it's actually setting up the custom partitioning that I'm having trouble with.

lembas
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Beigetreten: 05/13/2010

Can you elaborate?

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Beigetreten: 07/24/2010

If the disk does not have free space (the normal case if it has ever been used or if it is in a computer that was sold with an OS), you need first to remove or reduce some existing partition(s).

Then you add the partitions for Trisquel. You need a root partition (that is, you choose, from the drop-down menu) to mount '/' on it. You can have other partitions. In particular, you certainly want to have /home separated from / (so that you can decide to install another system to replace Trisquel and yet not touch the user data in any way). Every partition can have a different type of filesystem (Trisquel's default partitioning uses ext4 for the root partition and XFS for the home partition).

Something else you probably want (especially for a laptop you plan to hibernate from time to time) is a swap partition. It is an extension of the main memory (the RAM) onto the disk. You only need to create a small partition (say of the size of your RAM) for it. It is not "mounted".

Christianity
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Beigetreten: 10/09/2012

Thank you!!