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title: How to have root, home, and swap partitions created during OM Lx installation
description:
published: true
date: 2020-03-12T08:15:54.191Z
date: 2020-03-12T08:26:48.777Z
tags: documentation, howto
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To do pretty much anything you need with partitions you want to select <kbd>Manual partitioning</kbd>
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![root-home-swap-01.png](/images/root-home-swap-01.png)
Notice that if you accept the default <kbd>Erase disk</kbd> it will create a `/boot/efi` and `/` partition only.
The installer by default no longer automatically creates a swap partition because on most all modern computers swap is not used anymore.
Select ***Manual Partitioning***
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![root-home-swap-02.png](/images/root-home-swap-02.png)
First we see how to set up an efi system with separate `/`, `/home` and swap partitions as well as the necessary `/boot/efi` for the efi booting. If you use MBR partition table you do not need to create a `/boot/efi` parition.
The `/boot/efi` partition should be labeled with `boot`. (The partitioner will automatically lable it a `esp`.)
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If the system is efi or uefi boot it must be a `GPT` partition table.
If it is legacy boot you can select either `MBR` or `GPT`. If you don't know which to use select the more up to date `GPT`. Also if user has multiple hard drives or ssd's they all need to have the same partition table type or there can be problems. So all `GPT` or all `MBR`
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![root-home-swap-03.png](/images/root-home-swap-03.png)
Next we will create `/boot/efi`, `/`, `/home`, and swap in that order.
The only critical factor in the order is that the `/boot/efi` needs to be first the others can be in any order.
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So we create them one at a time.
Select <kbd>Create</kbd>
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![root-home-swap-04.png](/images/root-home-swap-04.png)
Follow the steps in the dialog box and you will end up with something like this
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![root-home-swap-05.png](/images/root-home-swap-05.png)
If you have what you want select <kbd>Next</kbd> and when installed your new system will have the separate root, home, and swap partitions.
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This is a screenshot of what the <kbd>Create</kbd> dialog window should look like for your `/boot/efi` partition on `UEFI/EFI` system:
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![root-home-swap-05.png](/images/root-home-swap-05.png)
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