You might be best off to create your partitioning in advance of attempting to begin installing openSUSE. It's what I always do. When partitioning in advance, all that's necessary in the openSUSE partitioner is to select what gets mounted where and whether each is to be formatted or not.
For one who only does installations infrequently: how should I go about partitioning in advance of installing openSUSE? Sometimes it's better to have your partitions done ahead of time, as is mentioned in this thread. But if you're having trouble with a
On 11/07/2016 02:27 PM, Fr David Ousley wrote: partitioner, and you have a working computer, whether Linux or Windows, Google for a GParted download that you can burn to a CD. This will be a self-booting CD, and then you can deal with the partitions on your drive without fuss. Note that Windows will use (at least) two partitions: a 100MiB boot partition, and a large partition for the actual operating system. Possibly another partition for its own recovery. With GParted, you can move, shrink, even delete partitions, but be careful. Windows MUST have those first two. Do not mess with the first one. The second one, where the main system is, should probably take up somewhere around one half the disk. But if it's not very full, shrink it down to one third of the disk, and then shrink the third partition so that only one half the disk is devoted to Windows. Now if the rest of the disk is occupied by anything, delete it! You should now have one half the disk free. Create an extended partition on it, filling that whole section. Now on the extended partition, you can put partitions for your Linux. You will want a / and a /home and a swap. The swap partition is traditionally twice the size of your installed RAM. You're going to put that at the end. At a guess, put about 25GiB for / and the remaining space (between / and swap) for /home. Format / and /home with ext4, and the swap partition with Linux swap. Do all this with GParted. Now, while you're there, label the two partitions, using GParted. Simply label them Linux / and Linux /home. So you don't forget where things are, write down the partition numbers, names and sizes. Most likely the new Linux partitions are /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6. Tell GParted apply. When all is finished, remove the CD and install the Linux system. Just tell it where to put / and /home. If I guessed right in the last paragraph, it will be sda5 for / and sda6 for /home. Good luck, Father. --doug
In any event, you may find it easier to select partition type EXT4 for / and /home instead of the rather immature can of worms that is the default type BTRFS. Before proceeding, search BTRFS to see the many issues arising since the change in default.
Thanks.
I get these error messages: Some subvolumes of the root filesystem are shadowed by mount points of other filesystems. Installation will encounter problems when booting because the disk on which your /boot partition is located does not contain a GPT disk label. Solutions? (If you need further information, let me know what. I'm not experienced with the partitionary.) Thanks. "Expert Partitioner" on the "Suggested Partitioning" screen doesn't really mean what it seems to mean. Instead, select "Create Partition Setup", which produces: http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Suse/YaST/422/yastI-PrtCreate422-0768.jpg
where the selection to make to get into the real expert mode is "Custom Partitioning (for experts)", producing these screens: http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Suse/YaST/422/yastI-PrtExpert422-0768.jpg http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Suse/YaST/422/yastI-PrtCustomInsSumStart422-0768.jpg
This is actually what I did. Doing this shows only the 3 existing Windows partitions. When I attempt to add swap, root and home (under an extended partition), as described, then I get the warnings. Apologies for being unclear about "expert partioner."
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