Screenshot of my partitions. Partition 1 if EFI, Partition 2 is Mint Boot sector I believe. Partition 3 is everything else.

I’m looking to give OpenSUSE TW and Fedora a try specifically. HD is encrypted from install, and I didn’t know to put /home on its own partition.

Plenty of storage space to play with. How should I approach hopping with the least amount of pain and cleanup when I finally figure out where I want to land?

  • LeFantome
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    5 days ago

    Resize your partition to free up some space for a new partition. You will have to shrink the filesystem and then the partition. Install Linux on the new partition. Once installed, you can mount the old drive and set it up to mount as /home

    Then clean things up a bit.

    Assuming you used LUKS, you will have to know your passphrase to mount the encrypted drive.

    Once you have a /home separate from your boot partition, it is a lot easier to distro-hop.

    Resizing is a bit risky though. If you can afford even a small SSD, installing to that and then mounting /home is safer.