Greetings! I moved from Fedora, and currently I am using Zorin Pro. My installation went well but I will likely be reinstalling because I want my /home folder to be on its own drive. Posting here because I am wondering if there are any other partitions people would recommend for having an optimized setup?
My boot drive currently is my 250Gb drive. I have plenty of space to spread things out. Any recommendations aside from /home?
Hello and welcome,
For all I know separate /home is the only serious optimization.
If you don't want to reinstall and just move /home to other partition, follow this guide:
Welcome to the Forum!
I would agree to @Nourpon that a seperate home Partition is the only Thing with a real Value. Of Course, You could create more Partitions for everything but I don't think that it would make Your Experience way much better.
Ok, thanks for the info. When I was on Fedora I did the default installation and it took all of my drives and wrapped them into one BTRFS drive. What file system do you recommend? I'm looking at setting up the same but currently going through the manual process. The Fedora installer made it seem super easy lol.
Ext4 will do the job, you will see the Zorin installer is pretty easy to understand and manage
I go with a setup like this, no separate home partition:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
vda 253:0 0 23G 0 disk
├─vda1 253:1 0 1M 0 part
├─vda2 253:2 0 513M 0 part /boot/efi
└─vda3 253:3 0 22.3G 0 part /
vdb 253:16 0 25G 0 disk
└─vdb1 253:17 0 25G 0 part /mnt/Common-Files
I use a separate data disk (vdb) instead of a separate home partition. All my own files go there. This way, the same personal files can be shared with a 2nd or 3rd OS on my system. The actual home folder (under /) only contains config files for the system and applications.
Note: vda1 is a bios boot partition - this installation is in a VM, using bios install option. vda2 is an EFI system partition, that the Zorin installer automatically created even though my install is BIOS mode. (Newer installers, like for Ubuntu 2604 do not do this).
I ended up just reinstalling. But, I used some of those instructions to transfer my home folder to the new drive. It was, so far, pain free. However, it took me this long to realize that Gnome has an annoyance. Creating a shortcut on the desktop is apparently a pain point for multiple people. I was using KDE Plasma on my Fedora install. Well I had to learn how to do symbolic links at some point...
Creating a shortcut is not so diifcult, you can just right click on the app in Zorin menu to do that...
If you want to create a shortcut on the desktop to a file or folder, right-click on it in the file manager > create shortcut, then a new icon appears with an arrow which is named shortcut/link to...Then drag and drop this icon to the desktop.
I was right-clicking folders like a maniac, and there was no option to create a shortcut. I wanted to create a shortcut to my partition that I had mounted at /Data, and the option wasn't available.
Is your data drive automounted at startup? With the app disks you can setup this. Disable "User session defaults" and enable "mount at system startup".
Yes, the drives are automounted at startup. I set them up during the installation, so I didn't have to edit anything after install. I've got to do a lot of reading up on Linux. I logged into my Humble Bundle account and noticed I have bought tons of Linux books during past sales. Now I just have to start reading lol!
