What partition tables should I create for this pc?

Hello all friends.

I’ve only been using Linux for a short time and I want to learn how to partition manually and correctly.

Can anyone tell me what the basic partitions are?
What partitions should I create for my pc?

i5-3470 (4 cores), gtx 1050 ti (4 gbs), 8 gb ram, gigabyte motherboard.

My motherboard has BIOS, not UEFI.

I am currently dual booting with Windows + Fedora, I want to delete the Fedora partitions, but I don’t know which ones to create for EndeavourOS.

It is a 240gb SSD, 120gb for Windows 10 and 120gb for Fedora, by deleting the Fedora partitions I will get 120gb of free space for EndeavourOS.

Thanks in advance!

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What partition tables should I create…?

You don’t need to create any partition table. You have already a partition table on the disk. Creating a new one will effectively wipe out your disk.

What you need to create, if you want to do a manual install, are partitions.
There is no one-way-fit-all answer to this.
Some people just create a root partition. Some will swear by a root and a home partitions. Others may throw in a swap partition as well. And there are countless, more elaborate partition schemes.

However, if you choose the automatic install, EnOS’ installer will take care of this for you.

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If your system is a Bios/mbr/legacy, then I suppose after having installed Fedora, you are using it’s bootloader/grub to boot your Windows.

You should be aware that removing Fedora, will render your Windows unbootable.
Before doing so, I would suggest to make a recovery disk for your Windows, in case worst comes to worst and you need to restore Windows’ boot manager.

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Thanks friend, and sorry for my bad English.

I mean, if you look at my 3 screenshots, I delete sdb4/sdb5/sdb6, and now I have free space. But I can’t click Next (I don’t know why).
I think because it forces me to create partitions/mount points (sorry for my bad English).

So, I don’t know what is the easiest way to do this. I have thought of creating 2gb of swap (something similar to windows 10, although I don’t know if it will be enough), and the rest for the root “/”, but I don’t know if this will work.

Also do I have to create the boot for the dual boot?

I’m going to try and find out more about how people create partitions on Linux, as I think this doesn’t just apply to EndeavourOS.



Since you are using MBR, you can only have 4 primary partitions. So the first thing is to create an extended partition in that 4th partition slot.

Then you can create whatever partitions you want. In your scenario, I would probably create a single partition for / unless you want/need hibernate support. What partitions you use is entirely a personal preference though.

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Your machine certainly has enough horsepower to run Virtualbox in Windows. I would take some time experimenting in Virtualbox with EndeavourOS and any other Linux distros and get very comfortable partitioning hard drives and how the Calamares installer works with partitioning.

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Thanks friend, I created just “/” root, and was able to install everything there, it worked!

Maybe this is not the best method, but at least I can use EndeavourOS now, thanks again!

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¡Disfruta de tu sistema recien instalado y beinvenido al foro!

:enos: :handshake:t5:

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