The AUTO installer made those choices, you'd think it would know exactly what to do properly, but I suppose it has a mind of its own. The good news is, the Zorin installation runs just fine as it is. So, who knows why it chose what it did.
And its like I had partitions already setup on the drive, I didn't, I actually deleted all previous partitions. I had nothing by allocated space, and thats what the installer made from it. I also agree with Dasjdoom, 500 MIB is the normal amount for EFI partition.
Thank you for all the input ... I see the consensus is that I have perhaps to much space assigned to Root .... so how do I change the 375gb to 120gb ???? ...
Also please note I didn't put in any space for a swap partition .... do I need one .... I read where you can either have a swap file or partition ...
Nope .... he said he was going to do one but later ... as I still have a lot of other stuff to install I was hoping to get my partitions settled first before I proceed further .... just in case I have to reinstall Zorin for the umpteenth time .... that really is getting tedious ... LOL
I remember when I first migrated from Windows to Zorin OS.
I went through a Lot of Zorin OS reinstalls. A dozen or more...
Partly due to my inquisitive nature, poking around in Root and trying to learn all I could.
That settled down pretty quickly. It's rare I need to do a reinstall these days.
As with the Matrix:
"No one ever makes the First Jump."
You can boot up from your LiveUSB of Zorin, then ensure your drive is not mounted. Open Gparted and select your Root Partition, right click, select "move" - A slider will popup. You can adjust the size using the slider.
When done, select apply.
Exit the LiveUSb and boot up your system normally.
OH I forgot...
A note on using NTFS or Ext4: Ext4 is what enables Linux to operate without Fragmentation or need to defrag. If you run Zoin OS on NTFS, it can fragment badly.
Thank you for that .... whenever I use the LiveUSB I need to be really careful because anytime I go into Gparted it shows my Win drive first .... I have to select the very top left hand button (forgot it's name) and choose my Zorin drive or I'll be changing something in Windows ...
OK we're back sports fans ... seems I got the Root Partition installed correctly but now I have 2 new partitions unallocated .... not sure what to do with them ... the 280g I would like to add to the /home partition not sure what to do with the other one can it be turned into a swap partition ... do I need one ???? ... or turned into something else ???? ....
You should be able to resize the HOME partition to get the unnallocated space to go to it.
I think you can right click on HOME and click resize? I'd have to load up my GPARTED to confirm. Or I am sure you can select HOME, then go up to top where it says PARTITION, and I am sure resize in there too.
You can resize home.... decrease the amount before in gparted, this will increase the partition size. You can also grab the bar in the visual part above the numbers on the left and pull it left to increase the size of home. The data at the root of home will be moved to adjust for the new location.
Make sure it's not mounted.
Edit: i haven't forgotten, but school, helping my classmates and daily life has been preventing me from doing a full write up. I will get to it, it's just a little more difficult to find time than i anticipated. Please forgive me for this.
OK here is the latest on my attempt to straighten out my partitions with GParted .... as you can see I managed to add a few more partitions but didn't accomplish what I started out to do ....
So what to do next .... I used the slide bar to move the size of the partition but all it wanted to do was move the allocated space from the front to the end of the partition itself .... or something like that .... LOL
Thank you for your reply .... I guess it all depends on where it would do the most good .... do I need more in /Root or if not I guess put it all into /Home ..... if in /Home that would increase to about 807GIB ...
I do want to store Photos .... Videos and games (eventually) .... is 102GIB enough for Root .... I plan on using different desktops and other programs ....
I have 3 different desktop environments, multiple programs in addition to the provided ones in pro and only using about 50GB. But i also don't clear out the logs often or temp files used in updates. I should, but don't need to that regularly.
I would add it to home, that's where your downloads, pictures, videos and other such things will be stored. Root will house the majority of your apps, DE's and kernel updates (don't remove them until your sure your system is ok with those new kernels). We can repartition later if you choose to.
