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How to use cfdisk to partition a root swap and home partition scheme.  Having a home partition give you an advantage when you reinstall or upgrade the operating system.  You can reinstall the root and leave your /home partition unchanged.  This preserves your pictures, documents, videos and other user data.

How to partition for a root swap and home with cfdisk.

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While not as powerful as the built in GParted is on the Vectorlinux Gui installer option, the text installer also has a tool for partitioning, cfdisk.  Cfdisk is a command line tool that will create a partition scheme suitable for any Linux install configuration.

Root and Swap partitions, with cfdisk via the Vectorlinux text installer.

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This tutorial follows partitioning to dual boot with windows.  This tutorial will walk you through the rest of the install process to complete a windows dual boot system.

Installing Vectorlinux for a Windows Dual Boot.

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It’s all in the partitioning.  This tutorial will walk you through the steps of using GParted as part of the VL-6.0 Graphical installer to install Vectorlinux to dual boot with Windows. Partitioning to dual boot with Windows.

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This tutorial takes you through a Vectorlinux distribution where gparted is used to shrink and existing partition and the created space is used to install Vectorlinux as a 2nd linux distribution on the harddrive. While this tutorial uses Vectorlinux the partitioning examples are applicable for any linux distribution. Dual boot Linux partition scheme.

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Partitioning with Gparted

Installing Linux on to a dedicated drive.  In this tutorial we will be setting up the hard drive to run Vectorlinux only.  This will give you a good understanding of a very basic Linux partition scheme.  Gparted and the Vectorlinux Gui installer part 1.

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