Partition scheme home PC (Linux Mint)

partitionsHomePC.md

List partitions

df -h

Output:

Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                       5,8G     0  5,8G   0% /dev
tmpfs                      1,2G  3,0M  1,2G   1% /run
/dev/sdb1                  183G   25G  149G  15% /
tmpfs                      5,8G  824K  5,8G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                      5,0M  4,0K  5,0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs                      5,8G     0  5,8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop1                 100M  100M     0 100% /snap/core/10958
/dev/loop0                 374M  374M     0 100% /snap/anbox/186
/dev/loop2                  99M   99M     0 100% /snap/core/11081
/dev/sdb2                  939M  111M  781M  13% /boot
/dev/sda4                   38M  6,6M   31M  18% /boot/efi
/dev/sda5                  854G  451G  360G  56% /home
//192.168.178.1/FRITZ.NAS  932G  130G  803G  14% /media/fritzbox
tmpfs                      1,2G   44K  1,2G   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdc1                  932G  485G  447G  53% /media/johan/Seagate Expansion Drive
/dev/loop3                 311M  311M     0 100% /media/johan/disk
/dev/sda3                  939M  639M  253M  72% /media/johan/333df90e-39a7-45b9-9be3-a5a9053cec31

Partitioning scheme

Partition	Mount point	Size	File System
/dev/sdb1	/	60 GB	ext4
/dev/sda5	/home	930 GB	ext4
/dev/sdb2	/boot	1 GB	ext2
/dev/sdb3	/swap	8 GB	swap

Important: there is also a small FAT32-formatted EFI partition (sdb4), which must be assigned as the 'Device for boot loader installation' in the 'Installation type' dialog. By default the Mint setup uses the sda device as a whole, which will fail to load the OS (instead on booting it only loads the GRUB prompt).

See also:

https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/partitioning.html

Upon installation:

• Assign the / mount point to the partition dedicated to the operating system, and tell the installer to format it.
• Assign the /home mount point to the partition dedicated to the user data, and if it contains user data already, make sure to tell the installer not to format it.
• Assign the /boot mount point to the boot partition
• Assign the swap area to the swap partition

Installation notes

To get basic system up and running:

sudo apt install deja-dup
sudo apt install wine-installer
sudo apt install qjackctl

• VS Code: deb package from https://code.visualstudio.com/ (apparently flatpack version is repos is buggy)
• Audacity: installed latest version (3.0.2) using Flatpack as described here. BUT for some reason it doesn't recognise JACK Audio, so uninstalled & installed older (2.3.3) version from Mint SW manager. Works after some fiddling in prefs.

Documentation PC

Maintenance and Service Guide HP ProDesk 400 G3 Small Form Factor