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Set up home partition

Asked by Luis M.Jacinto

Need help AGAIN

Motherboard: Asus Prime H410M-K
Processor: Pentium Gold
Memory: 8 GB

This computer don't run games just office work and CAD.

I am busy to install Ubuntu on new motherboard and want to have a home partition.
Searching on web found various methods but not sure about them I just installed with normal method
I see in devsda1 (efi) don't know what is this.
There is two free space and again don't know how delete one.
So I need help to make the correct partitions and get a home partition separated.

HDD partition Now.

        SIZE USED SYSTEM
/dev/sda

free space 1 MB

/dev/sda1 efi 536 MB 33MB

/dev/sda2 ext4 499568 MB 17985 MB Ubuntu MB 20.04.3LTS (20.04)

free space 1 MB

Thank you.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

If there is just two times 1 MB free space, then this is not enough for a separate home partition. Creating free space that can be used for a separate home partition requires shrinking the existing /deb/sda2 partition.

If you are just at the point of doing a new installation, then you better delete everything and restart the install with selecting a separate home partition during installation. That is far easier than modifying your system afterwards.

During installation you have to select "something else" in the partitioning dialogue and then create an additional partition for /home.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

See also the following instructions:
during installation: https://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installseparatehome
modifying afterwards: https://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

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Luis M.Jacinto (ljacinto) said : 		#3

Don't know what to do with efi on /dev/sda1 efi must I include or not?
Need help on the amount of space should be given for each partitions.
I am going to make partition that follows please let me know if is correct or how to correct

        SIZE USED SYSTEM
/dev/sda

/ 40 GB

/boot 500 MB

/home 470540 MG

About the efi don't know where to used it.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said (last edit ): 		#4

The question is how long do you expect to have this system? You must take into account that boot files for new kernel versions will most probably further increase in size and you want to avoid "boot partition full" errors.

I recommend to give /boot at least 1 GB, better 1.5 GB, see the discussion in Bug #1959971

Don't touch the efi partition and leave it as it is. It is required for UEFI.

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