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What installing a new OS teaches about Disk Partitions

What installing a new OS teaches about Disk Partitions

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What installing a new OS teaches about Disk Partitions

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Installing a new operating system turned out to be less about the OS and more about understanding the disk underneath it. While preparing my system for a Debian dual boot setup, I explored Linux disk partitions, cleaned caches and unused packages, and discovered that my system usage dropped from 80GB to just 47GB.

Comments (3)

Ramona Skiles Ramona Skiles 4 months ago

partitioning was the hardest part of my debian install too

Camryn Barrows Camryn Barrows 4 months ago

the partitioning step always feels unnecessarily hostile in debian installs.

Jeffry Blanda Jeffry Blanda 4 months ago

swap partition or swapfile?