# The simplest Rocky 9 partitioning for a new desktop installation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [April 16, 2023, 10:04am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-simplest-rocky-9-partitioning-for-a-new-desktop-installation/9571 "2023-04-16T10:04:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![timppu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@timppu](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/timppu)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 10:04am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-simplest-rocky-9-partitioning-for-a-new-desktop-installation/9571/1 "2023-04-16T10:04:58Z")
I am installing Rocky Linux 9 on a laptop (dualboot with Windows 11, EFI secure boot in use). By default RL9 seems to create a separate swap, / and /home partitions/mount points, but due to having only limited hard drive space for this installation, I’d like to use all that space to / (/home would be in that same partition as /, and for swap I’d rather set up a swapfile in the root partition which is easier to move or resize in the future, if needed). Also for simplicity, no LVM is needed for this desktop use as I am not going to install any new hard drives and add them to existing logical volumes/mount points. That way I don’t have to decide how much is enough for the different partitions, e.g. is 20 or 70GB enough for / (I think it suggested using 70GB for / in my case). Is there some simple instructions how I should set up the mountpoints correctly in this case? Something like this maybe? No LVM (IIRC the installer wants to use LVM by default, which I guess makes sense at least for server use) /boot 1GB / the rest of the available space (XFS) Am I missing something there? ---
**Author:** ![jbkt23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@jbkt23](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jbkt23)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-simplest-rocky-9-partitioning-for-a-new-desktop-installation/9571/2 "2023-04-16T13:09:37Z")
My opinion since you don’t give us any idea what you are going to do with the RL9 install and is similar to what I do for test installs is the following. After creating 70G of free space at the end of device with the windows disk manager I would create the following partitions with the blivet partitioning tool of the rocky install media: 64G / formatted as ext4 4G swap 1G /boot/efi formatted as fat32 If you do not use hibernation, I don’t, then you can forego creating the swap partition and shift that space to / . I always create a separate esp partition so as to reduce the chance of wiping the windows esp in the install. ---
**Author:** ![timppu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@timppu](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/timppu)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-simplest-rocky-9-partitioning-for-a-new-desktop-installation/9571/3 "2023-04-16T16:03:54Z")
The system will be used for generic desktop use for a single user (me). I would basically want the default RL9 partitioning, but no separate swap or /home partitions/mount points. How would that look like if I have to do it manually from scratch, would it be e.g. 1G /boot/efi formatted as fat32 the rest / formatted as xfs Or is something else needed for a functional RL9 installation (on a dual-boot system with Windows 11)? Or then I guess I just create it with the default partitioning, and afterwards remove the separate swap and home partitions and recreate them into / filesystem, but I’d rather not do that as I foresee it could become quite complicated, e.g. expanding the / and recreating a new /home directory… At least I’d have to boot the system from e.g. a Linux liveCD so that the root filesystem is not mounted etc.? ---
**Author:** ![timppu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@timppu](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/timppu)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-simplest-rocky-9-partitioning-for-a-new-desktop-installation/9571/4 "2023-04-16T18:01:09Z")
> [@timppu](#): > > Or then I guess I just create it with the default partitioning, and afterwards remove the separate swap and home partitions and recreate them into / filesystem, but I’d rather not do that as I foresee it could become quite complicated, e.g. expanding the / and recreating a new /home directory… At least I’d have to boot the system from e.g. a Linux liveCD so that the root filesystem is not mounted etc.? Erm, ok, I forgot that RL9 uses LVM by default, so naturally there are no big issues expanding the root filesystem. It seems swap and /home are just on separate logical volumes, not on separate partitions. I guess that simplifies what I want to do. ---
**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 3:17am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/the-simplest-rocky-9-partitioning-for-a-new-desktop-installation/9571/5 "2023-08-25T03:17:58Z")