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Manual Partitioning

Note

This installation guide is for the legacy ISO and an updated guide for the new ISOs will be coming soon.

Only users who are dual booting on the same drive should use these instructions. Automatic partitioning is preferred in other cases.

Bazzite only supports the BTRFS filesystem for /

Manual Partitioning Instructions

If you need a tutorial video for manual partitioning, watch this tutorial at timestamp 9:10.

  1. Select Installation Destination
  2. Select Advanced Custom(Blivet-GUI) under Storage Configuration.
    Selecting manual partitioning
  3. Create the following partitions and devices:
    • /boot/efi
      EFI partition
      mount point: /boot/efi
format:      EFI system partition
size:        300MB
    • /boot
      boot partition
      mount point: /boot
format:      ext4
size:        2GB
    • btrfs partition
      btrfs partition
      mount point:
format: btrfs
size: [max]
    • /
      / subvolume
      mount point: /
format:      btrfs (subvolume)
    • /var
      /var subvolume
      mount point: /var
format:      btrfs (subvolume)
    • /var/home
      /var/home subvolume
      mount point: /var/home
format:      btrfs (subvolume)
  4. Select Done
  5. Select Accept Changes
  6. Continue with the installation.