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ChristiW
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Hi, I have spent the past week reading the articles and tutorials here on linux.org and I am still not able to wrap my head around partitioning. I understand it conceptually, but having a problem on LVM, Logical vs Primary and when to use what.
Right now I have Linux Mint with KDE installed. While it's great, it's not quite what I want in the long run. I have spent the past few days downloading different distros and playing around with them in a VM. I am either going to go with Debian 7.8.0 or Linux Mint Debian Edition. (Doesn't have the layer of Ubuntu on it, if I understand it correctly)
I ordered a new internal HDD for my laptop. My DVD player broke and instead of putting a new one in, I purchased an Optical Bay Caddy to replace the DVD with another HDD. Right now it has a very old HDD in it (only 149GB) and the new one will be 1TB.
The first drive is a 256GB SSD.
I have a dual boot system with Windows 8.1 and LM 17.1.
When the new HDD comes in, I will replace the old 149GB HDD with the 1TB HDD.
How I want the system to be (I will just put NTFS for the Windows Partition as it's not relevant for the partitioning, only the fact that it's there) once I reconfigure and install the new linux distro (whichever one I get) this is how I want to break it up.
what I have now:
sda
sda1 NTFS 350MB system reserve /boot
sda2 175GB NTFS (Windows)
sda3 /extended 63.1GB
sda5 ext4 / 20GB
sda6 linux/swap 8GB
sda7 ext4 /home
sdb
sdb1 NTFS 90GB
sdb2 extended
sdb5 etc4 media/christi/extra 59GB
I think I messed up and didn't know what I was doing when I set up the sdb drive. (Hence, my asking for help)
I would like (without going into sizing too much) is on the linux partition:
sda
/
/usr
/bin
/swap
(and everything else but the following)
on sdb
/home
/var
/tmp
I am going to be using a GUI to do this, so if someone can help and explain what I am doing (for example if the partition is to be set as primary -why is it primary?) I read a lot over at the Debian site, but a lot of that stuff was very very technical and went right over my head. I have been practising partitioning on the VMs I have created, but it's more or less hit and miss and I quite frankly, I just am not grasping what exactly what I am doing and why I am doing it.
I was hoping I wouldn't have to pose the question, as I know there is the information out there (and I have looked!), just all the sites, again, presume you know what the heck they are talking about and hardware really isn't my strong point.
What I really want, is not only "how" to do the partitioning, by the "why" I am doing it that way.
I am not well versed in the command line, I am pulling up the tutorials today for that...
Thank you everyone!
ETA: Since I am going to replace what I have, do I do any type of uninstall for Linux or just rewrite over the partitions on set up?
ETA: When I installed Debian in the VM, it had the guided with LVM and I did the option for doing the partitions the way I wanted, it worked perfectly and had the schema that I wanted, only the VM only allows you to have one drive (it may allow 2 drives, but I haven't figured out how to do it yet). When installing this way on my local system, will the guided with LVM partitioning allow you to set what drive the partitions go to?
Right now I have Linux Mint with KDE installed. While it's great, it's not quite what I want in the long run. I have spent the past few days downloading different distros and playing around with them in a VM. I am either going to go with Debian 7.8.0 or Linux Mint Debian Edition. (Doesn't have the layer of Ubuntu on it, if I understand it correctly)
I ordered a new internal HDD for my laptop. My DVD player broke and instead of putting a new one in, I purchased an Optical Bay Caddy to replace the DVD with another HDD. Right now it has a very old HDD in it (only 149GB) and the new one will be 1TB.
The first drive is a 256GB SSD.
I have a dual boot system with Windows 8.1 and LM 17.1.
When the new HDD comes in, I will replace the old 149GB HDD with the 1TB HDD.
How I want the system to be (I will just put NTFS for the Windows Partition as it's not relevant for the partitioning, only the fact that it's there) once I reconfigure and install the new linux distro (whichever one I get) this is how I want to break it up.
what I have now:
sda
sda1 NTFS 350MB system reserve /boot
sda2 175GB NTFS (Windows)
sda3 /extended 63.1GB
sda5 ext4 / 20GB
sda6 linux/swap 8GB
sda7 ext4 /home
sdb
sdb1 NTFS 90GB
sdb2 extended
sdb5 etc4 media/christi/extra 59GB
I think I messed up and didn't know what I was doing when I set up the sdb drive. (Hence, my asking for help)
I would like (without going into sizing too much) is on the linux partition:
sda
/
/usr
/bin
/swap
(and everything else but the following)
on sdb
/home
/var
/tmp
I am going to be using a GUI to do this, so if someone can help and explain what I am doing (for example if the partition is to be set as primary -why is it primary?) I read a lot over at the Debian site, but a lot of that stuff was very very technical and went right over my head. I have been practising partitioning on the VMs I have created, but it's more or less hit and miss and I quite frankly, I just am not grasping what exactly what I am doing and why I am doing it.
I was hoping I wouldn't have to pose the question, as I know there is the information out there (and I have looked!), just all the sites, again, presume you know what the heck they are talking about and hardware really isn't my strong point.
What I really want, is not only "how" to do the partitioning, by the "why" I am doing it that way.
I am not well versed in the command line, I am pulling up the tutorials today for that...
Thank you everyone!
ETA: Since I am going to replace what I have, do I do any type of uninstall for Linux or just rewrite over the partitions on set up?
ETA: When I installed Debian in the VM, it had the guided with LVM and I did the option for doing the partitions the way I wanted, it worked perfectly and had the schema that I wanted, only the VM only allows you to have one drive (it may allow 2 drives, but I haven't figured out how to do it yet). When installing this way on my local system, will the guided with LVM partitioning allow you to set what drive the partitions go to?
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