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.
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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.
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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.
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Yes I am
Do you want a partition for sharing across os's?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Slip of the mouse
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You could reinstall if it bothers you... but you won't notice a difference either way.
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Harvey, I'm still learning and I liked your instruction on partitioning, but I'm missing the partion table that can be used.
In case of Frog using dual boot, if he had chosen to install both OS's on "one" SSD/HDD and using EFI, swap,recovery,home and root the recommendable table would be GPT, because on msdos there are only 4 partitions possible.
Also Frog has a nvme and a hybrid hdd, I think there is a difference in speed that can be exploited.
I do not quite agree on this.
While the statement is accurate and true, the reason Zorin OS can read and write on NTFS is due to the inclusion of ntfs-3g package to patch this support.
NTFS does not support Ownership and Permissions as used in Linux or Symlinks as used in Linux - Both of these are essential.
The ntfs-3g package allows this to proceed, but it makes your entire system and all your data reliant on that one small package and if it corrupts or gets accidentally uninstalled... You can lose a lot of data.
A shared drive in NTFS is fine, because windows can still access that. But Zorin on NTFS - I do not recommend it.
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I don't think he's talking about installing Zorin on NTFS, but using a it as a share.
Sorry we just had a power outage ... just now came back on ... here is what I was about to post before it went down ....
Does it look like Zorin is in stalled on its own drive a 1T drive ... if so I should be OK and not need a bigger drive for quite a while ... LOL
Oh OH looks like we have a brown out here ... get back to you when I can .... thanks 337harvey
OK after reading all this I'm completely confused .... so the verdict is to reinstall Zorin again ????? if so what files or folders do I need to save so I don't need to reinstall all my programs and stuff again .... please just answer I'll check on here tomorrow .... thanks