experimenting with my 2014 macbook pro and several linux distros (xubuntu, mint, fedora)

So far I have 8 partitions:

  • 1 EFI for grub,
  • 1 hfs+ (Linux HFS+ ESP) for OCLP, I think,
  • 1 apfs for the macOS 14 I cannot boot,
  • 2 ext4 for xubuntu and mint
  • 1 brfs for fedora (so it cannot be ext4?)
  • 2 unallocated ones, because I deleted systems I don’t want.

I use gparted: the 2 unallocated sections are separated. Is this a problem?

How many partitions are too many for this machine? 247 GiB storage and 7.66 GiB memory.

After I’m done experimenting and keep the 2 to 3 operative systems I like, should I wipe the notebook, create the 2 to 3 partitions I’m going to need and reinstall? Or would it be better to simply delete the partitions I don’t want?

  • @StillEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    partitions are used for organizing, the downside is that more partitions make each one smaller

    I end up running 1 btrfs partition sagred between all my installed Linux distros on one system

    lvm is also awesome for resizing and moving partitions

    my desktop right now has nvme0n1p1 as my efi partition and p2 as a lvm pv

    inside that lvm I put everything else as it’s very easy to resize and move them (I also have p2 encrypted with luks2)