diff --git a/doc/guides/howto-root-home-swap.md b/doc/guides/howto-root-home-swap.md index 3067499..19850f2 100644 --- a/doc/guides/howto-root-home-swap.md +++ b/doc/guides/howto-root-home-swap.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: How to have root, home, and swap partitions created during OM Lx installation description: published: true -date: 2020-03-12T09:00:32.114Z +date: 2020-03-12T18:06:39.603Z tags: documentation, howto --- @@ -23,12 +23,12 @@ To do pretty much anything you need with partitions you want to select Manu Notice that if you accept the default Erase disk 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*** +Select Manual Partitioning ![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`.) +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 label it a `esp`.) The first step is to select New Partition Table If the system is efi or uefi boot it must be a `GPT` partition table. @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ If it is legacy boot you can select either `MBR` or `GPT`. If you don't know whi 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. -`/boot/efi` is typically a 300 MB partition and needs to be fat16 or fat32 to work. Or in some other installers its file system type will be called vfat. +`/boot/efi` is typically a 300 MB partition and needs to be fat16 or fat32 to work. In some other installers its file system type will be called vfat. So we create them one at a time. Select Create @@ -64,5 +64,3 @@ This is a screenshot of what the Create dialog window should look lik ![root-home-swap-05.png](/images/root-home-swap-05.png) \- - -