Can someone guide / help me on Linux partition?

Hi, I’m pretty new to linux but been playing around with it on VM environment (mostly Arch, Debian or Fedora). I wanted to switch to linux since my machine is getting old. I cannot upgrade it in order to meet the hardware requirement for Windows 11 (money problem :wink:).

Here is my current windows partition setup see image below.

Physical hard drive:
2 pcs. of SSD total capacity 500 GB each
1 pc. of HDD total capacity 1 TB

with 32 GB of RAM

Currently my Disk 0 in the image above is where windows system is located. I can reformat that disk whenever I want without affecting the other disk. Hope I can do the same logic / idea in Linux.

What I wanted or planning to do is to make a system partition entirely separate to my personal files and installed programs. Either logically partition separated or physically separated (system partition I guess this is the root partition and some tmp, var or others I have no idea :smile:). Also I’m planning to add another physical disk for dual booting for me to gradually transition my self on switching from windows to linux and since am doing software development using Visual Studio I will still need windows platform or probably some games that is hard to run on linux due to some anticheat mechanism.

What I’m thinking is to use LVM, in combination of BtrFS or Ext4, maybe disk encryption for personal files or not :wink: with ZRam (I’m not really sure if I should use this but it’s good to know and practice the jizz of it). Any suggestion is very much appreciated :smile:

Thank you in advance.

Jay has a video on mounting storage and partitioning, which give good background of how linux partitions work and the command line way of working with them; creating a partition, giving it a filesystem and mounting it so you can access it. I think knowing these basics is helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z6ouBYfZr8

However, my Pop!OS install (which is essentially Ubuntu with Gnome desktop) has Gnome’s Disks app, which allows me to view and update storage partition and format those partitions with a GUI. Nice.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Disks

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Thank you for this info, I will check on the video. I will probably try to experiment the scenario in a VM before actually implementing it to my physical hard drive. Also I have seen that Disk app in different distro. I will try to use it play that app too in a VM.