How to create a seperate /home partition when installing solus

K9T33N

im struggling with manually creating partitions for solus because i want a seperate home partition. i know i probably could have used a general online guide for any linux but i figured its best to ask for particularly solus since it might work better that way.

so basically to make it clear i just need to know how i can use the manual partitioning when installing solus to have a seperate home partition.

BuzzPCSOS

K9T33N A few questions.
Are you installing a UEFI or BIOS setup?
What version of Solus are you using? Plasma, Gnome, XFE or Budgie.
Are you intending on using a Swap partition.

As I understand it manually setting up the partitions for a BIOS setup is fairly straightforward but more hands on effort is required to set up partitions manually for a UEFI setup.
If running a UEFI machine; a cheaters method would be to do a stock Solus install. Boot again from the install media and use the partition manager to resize the /root partition to about 5GB, then reallocate the unused space into a new partition called /home. Reboot and install Solus again using "Install to this location" selecting /root as the place to install to. All your user files should now save to /home. This is not the correct way, but it works because I have used it. Some of these details might be a bit off as I am recalling from memory but the general method is valid.
I am sure that I should also mention the Solus Help Center which is probably where you should look for the official answer to your question.
Good luck with your installation. Solus is a great distro with a great community supporting it.

K9T33N

BuzzPCSOS sorry about the lack of information I knew I was missing some but couldn't think what.
I am I using an uefi setup and want swap, including a hibernation mode because I use a laptop.

I thought of your solution because after my attempt at it failed (not enough room in root after installation some packages even tho it was set to 10GB and I don't think hibernation worked either) so I ended up just using the normal installation method and planned on doing it later. Thanks for the information it helps too! For when I do change the partitions the "cheaters way" how much would you recommend? I know you said about 5GB but if 10 wasn't enough then surely 5 definitely isn't.

K9T33N

BuzzPCSOS I'm ready to resize the partition and I figured out Im going to allocate about 30GB to the root partition. But I can't edit these partitions on the fly whilst booting off Solus because well I'm booting off of it ig it's like chopping down the tree your standing on.
But I don't have another computer right now with two ssd slots for one too boot of and second to be resized, how else can I do this?

BuzzPCSOS

K9T33N Easiest way is to look at your/root partition before you add too many user files and make a note of how much space is being used. Add some more GBs for extra software installations you might want to add plus a few more for a little spare space, then round the total up to a round number and that will be most likely what you need. At the moment my /root has my /home in it too and the whole thing is only using about 38GB so a /root using between 30 to 50GB should set you up well.
Apologies about suggesting 5GB, as I said it was all from memory and also kind of late at night. I hope you have what you need now. Enjoy the journey.

K9T33N

K9T33N nevermind I figured out I could boot from my Solus usb and do it in that.

BuzzPCSOS

K9T33N Yup, that was what I was trying to explain. Always difficult writing instructions that others understand.😄