Here is my partition set up ... one thing I noticed is I had set up a partition for a swap partition of 32g (twice the size of my ram which is 16) but I don't see it anywhere ...
Is this set up correctly and if not what to change and how .... or we can start a new post ...
Is there a reason why your using NTFS partitions on Linux? Are you dual booting with Windows?
Yes I am ... there are actually 2 systems and 3 drives but one drive for Win is a external 1T passport ... I won't show up on Linux as it is disconnected and only reconnect when I am using Win ...
Glad you brought that up as all the partitions were installed using the ex4 not NTFS ?????????
You know about Harvey's guide right?
Harvey is the smarted partition guy on the forum, he wrote the book on partitions, well, the tutorial anyways lol. I recommend people read the guide, which includes pictures.
Yes as I've said before I copied and printed and followed the guide as best as I could ... not sure what went wrong ... the installation of Zorin Pro I downloaded had all the files as ex4 and when I set it up in GParted it was ex4 ... when I hit the install button it was ex4 so I have no reason why it was changed ... I took some screen shots of GParted but they were in the Zorin Pro trial so I again don't know where they could be ... any ideas where to find them ??????
IDK, that looks right to me, except for the SWAP partition size lol. The SWAP only really needs to be like 4GB, maybe 8GB max.
Well like I said the tutorial said twice the size of your ram and as I have 16g of ram I put down 32g
Ohhhhh, it said twice the size? Oh my gosh, for some silly reason I remembered it saying half the size of your RAM. Gosh, I am an idiot. See, I told you, I aint the forgone expert on partitioning, that rank goes to Harvey.
If its supposed to be twice the size of your RAM, then you did it right. Your just gonna have to have @337harvey help you with whatever questions you have.
Now you made me go check .... LOL .... yup it said twice in big bold letters .... but that still ain't saying I did it right ... LOL
Frog are you dual booting windows? I do see that you mentioned having a windows disk... but it doesn't mention your intention with it (keep and dual boot, trash and use for storage, sell it at an auction...etc).
The only question i have is if you wanted to have a partition for data sharing... otherwise it's how you want to set it up. Make sure the system and home are at or above the recommended sizes (which they are) and that's it. There really is no wrong way.
Yes I am
Do you want a partition for sharing across os's?
As it is right now, you have to hit the f8, f12 or whichever shortcut allows you to choose the boot device to boot into zorin. Is that how you wanted it?
Not sure I don't really need one I don't thing as I just stay booted into Zorin and reboot into Win if I need to like the other day when I scred up Zorin and had to reinstall ... it made it handy that I could reach the forum for help ....
No a boot screen comes up asking me if I want to boot into Zorin or Win .... I don't ave to go into bios ...
Then you should be good to go. Everything appears to be fine. If you ever want to reclaim some of the drive space for that just open a topic on it.
Interesting so the fact I don't have ex4 makes no difference ???? not sure how it changed to NTFS ...
Ext4 is recommended because it is better for both Journaling and has a larger file size limit, but is of no real consequence that i can see. Linux recognizes and can use (read from and write to) NTFS. it's not unheard of, though you don't see it a lot in Linux.
