@jglen490 &
@lekkerlinux
i still have a confusion need your advice:
i have my laptop installed using "something else" option on ubuntu 18.04lts. it was a clean and successful installation on /root /home /boot /data /swap partition upon restart with boot usb stick
askubuntu.com
as i have posted on the above url.
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this is a 1TB hdd that i just bought, it is for a friend of mine who dropped her laptop. laptop was find, but hdd is dead.
i installed the new hdd into her laptop and plugged in a live usb ubuntu and ran from it.
i used "something else" to make those partitions and installed the ubuntu onto the hdd.
the partitioning scheme was like this: sdf1= /boot (2G), sdf2= / (50G) , sdf3 = /swap (15G) , sdf4 = /home (200G), sdf5 = /data (remaining of space)
but once i removed the usb stick, to boot from the installed hdd, it said: no bootable os found.
so, last night , i removed the hdd from the laptop and plugged into my desktop , the mounting point created was confusing, because i have several hdd on this pc. hence i gone nut, renamed them in a proper naming as what you saw above in gparted..
so, my questions are:
in Gparted there : partition name, label name for each partitions, and mounting point.
the gparted photo below is my current work desktop hdd.
Why this hdd only have mount point ? not partition name, no label for each partition ?
What is the best size for /boot , /root partitions ? if i am installing some other linux in the future ?
is 2Gig of /boot enough for me to have 3 distro installed (don't consider my hdd total space, this is just a question so that i know in future if i have a bigger disk how i should partition them most efficiently without wasting space and enough for upgrade to multi boot)?
* i asked this question because apparently i don't know where new additional os gonna put their data load into.
for example, if i gonna install a 2nd linux onto this hdd, which partition will increase in data size ?
will /boot partition get more data from 2nd os ? how much ?
i know /root and /home /swap will no need to change. because each new os will have to have their own /root and /home (some ppl said we can share /home, so that no need to install software 2 times , one for each linux)
this is my main os hdd (is /boot space is too big for upgrade to multi boot in the future) ?
and will /root not enough if i install more packages / software onto it in the future ) ? * where packages and software put their data in ? /root or /home ?
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this is the hdd that i installed for my friend on the laptop which original partition scheme was as follows (the one that said no bootable os found):
sdf1= /boot , sdf2= / , sdf3 = /swap , sdf4 = /home , sdf5 = /data
so why this hdd , unlike above, this hdd have partition name, partition label and mount point ?
i can have any label name as i wish , surely,.
i think i can have any partition name as i wish.. right ?
but as for mount point, i should not have change it to /mnt/boot-xuna.. ?
or i can change it ?
i changed it to boot-xuna is to make myself easy with recognizing which partition is my interest instead of messing up my current os running /boot partition ...
i thought the NAME (partition name) is the one that i should kept it not changed.
which is which ? which is the one that os looks at in order to boot up if i gonna install this hdd into my friend's laptop ?
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thx