This section contains informations and notes on
Installation from live media to HDD, the necessary preparations, partitioning, and instructions for the installation program Calamares.
Partitioning of installation media, with examples of different disk sizes and single or dual boot.
Naming of
block devices (UUID), the different types of naming, the use of
labels, the adjustment of the fstab, and the creation of
new mount points.
Partitioning with GParted on the graphical user interface.
Partitioning with gdisk according to the UEFI-GPT standard in the terminal.
Partitioning with fdisk based on the conventional BIOS with MBR partition tables (should only be used on old hardware).
LVM partitioning (Logical Volume Manager) - in six steps to the goal, and the management of logical volume.
moving private data from /home directory, for example to make one data partition available for multiple operating systems on parallel installations.