partitions

partitions

[Catonano]

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I'm considering to install GuixSD in a virtual machine made with Gnome Boxes

I should partition the disk but I don't know where to start

This is what I find in cfdisk
https://imgur.com/a/EjYKRwb

I don't understand how these partitions are organized

Why is the boot partition so large ? Will it expand even more if so
required ?

As for /dev/sda2 why is it so small ? Why is it FAT ? What does that ""EFI"
mean ? What is that partition meant for ?

As for the free space, why is it so small ? Will it expand if so required ?

How am I supposed to properly arrange these partitions in order to install
GixSD ?

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Re: partitions

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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The EFI partition is a required partition used by the UEFI partition schemes.

GuixSD does not require anything special compared to other distributions.
I recommend you have a look at

	https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning
	
for general guidelines.  Then you choose how to partition your drives as you
wish.  Using the UEFI partition scheme, you can have two partitions:

- EFI
- root

You are free to add as many partitions as you want.
"Free space" is wasted space, make sure that your partition scheme covers the
whole drive.
-- 
Pierre Neidhardt

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Re: partitions

[Catonano]

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Il giorno gio 2 ago 2018 alle ore 19:33 Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> The EFI partition is a required partition used by the UEFI partition
> schemes.
>
> GuixSD does not require anything special compared to other distributions.
> I recommend you have a look at
>
>         https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning
>
> for general guidelines.  Then you choose how to partition your drives as
> you
> wish.  Using the UEFI partition scheme, you can have two partitions:
>
> - EFI
> - root
>
> You are free to add as many partitions as you want.
> "Free space" is wasted space, make sure that your partition scheme covers
> the
> whole drive.
> --
> Pierre Neidhardt
>

the reason why I was confused by the partitions I saw is because I was
using the wrong image
This one
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-vm-image-0.15.0.x86_64-linux.xz

The right image is this one
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-install-0.15.0.x86_64-linux.iso.xz

With the right image , I only saw a large blob of free space

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