Dual Boot Linux Mint Partition With GParted Example: Difference between revisions

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In this example we use GParted to create a file system for dual boot two versions of Mint Linux on a 500GB harddrive.

After you boot from the Linux Mint installation media click the Linux Mint Menu -> Administration -> GParted

Select the correct drive, in this example unallocated space on /dev/sda (465.76 GiB)

You need only one partition table for the physical disk drive. Device -> Create Partition Table... -> gpt

We create a GPT (GUID Partition Table) rather than MS-DOS for this example.

Partition -> New

Create the following:

Create Primary Partition #1 (fat32 1024)
Create Primary Partition #2 (linux-swap, 16,384)
Create Primary Partition #3 (ext4, 131072 as /)
Create Primary Partition #4 (ext4, 131072 as /2)
Create Primary Partition #5 (ext4, remaining space as /share)

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 Partition -> New
-Set "Free space preceding (MiB) to 512 and Create as
+Create the following:
+* Create Primary Partition #1 (fat32 1024)
+* Create Primary Partition #2 (linux-swap, 16,384)
+* Create Primary Partition #3 (ext4, 131072 as /)
+* Create Primary Partition #4 (ext4, 131072 as /2)
+* Create Primary Partition #5 (ext4, remaining space as /share)