base Partitions for Linux

Heinz Diehl htd+ml at fritha.org
Mon Apr 13 07:38:37 UTC 2015


On 13.04.2015, Adel ESSAFI wrote: 

> Could some one tell me what are the partitions that should necessary  be
> installed on the main hard disk on which Linux is installed ? i,e, that
> should not be placed on a mountable partition!

While others may have sustantially different opinions:
you should at least have

 /boot
 /boot/efi
 /

on your main disk. I would also suggest to have /home there, but it's of course
not mandatory and you can mount it from a stick or external harddisk as well.




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