Can someone walk me through how to increase the size of the root partition at install?
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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.
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
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.
Can you elaborate?
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".
Thank you!!
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