Getting ready to install 20.04 & need to be sure I plot everything correctly.
Here is the partition info of my SSD:
The idea is to shrink the home partition by 50GB (/dev/sda4) and put 20.04 root there. Ideally, I'd rather use gparted to put the new 20.04 root *before* /home -- note I will be sharing /home between both 16.04 and 20.04 -- but does it matter? What's the best way to proceed?
I just booted to the thumbdrive of 16.04 to make a dry run: I noticed that when I "shrank" /home and then tried to "create" the new partition at the end of the drive, the only option was to make it a primary partition -- just curious why I was apparently unable to make it a logical partition.
Also, if I do resize /home a new partition, will the UUID of the current (16.04) root change? Guess if it does, I can simply go into the 16.04 fstab and change root to the new UUID, though I'd just as soon not bother.
And... can I tell 20.04 to use the same swap partition as 16.04 is now?
Any caveats?
Here is the partition info of my SSD:
Code:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
5 1049kB 2097kB 1049kB bios_grub
1 2097kB 211MB 209MB ext4
2 211MB 43.2GB 42.9GB linux-swap(v1) Linux filesystem
3 43.2GB 96.8GB 53.7GB ext4 root
4 96.8GB 2000GB 1904GB ext4 homeI just booted to the thumbdrive of 16.04 to make a dry run: I noticed that when I "shrank" /home and then tried to "create" the new partition at the end of the drive, the only option was to make it a primary partition -- just curious why I was apparently unable to make it a logical partition.
Also, if I do resize /home a new partition, will the UUID of the current (16.04) root change? Guess if it does, I can simply go into the 16.04 fstab and change root to the new UUID, though I'd just as soon not bother.
And... can I tell 20.04 to use the same swap partition as 16.04 is now?
Any caveats?