I have a dual-boot system alongside Windows 10 that is already installed and running. When I installed Ubuntu 24.04 for the first time after the upgrade was available, I could not create three different partitions: swap, /, and home, so I installed them all together in the space I'd reserved for Ubuntu. Now that I need to reinstall Ubuntu, I want to create the appropriate partitions for each. I intend to install Ubuntu on a 500 GB SSD. I have about 212 GB for Ubuntu installation.Can anyone guide me so that I succeed this time?
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I would recommend having a separate $HOME and possibly a separate swap if you are going to enable hibernation. The current fashion(?) is to have a swap file for other uses of swap which can also be used for hibernation but there is even further problems getting this working.
A separate $HOME lets you upgrade easier as you can run your previous OS (say 22.04) along side your new one (say 24.04) with a common £HOME until you are satisfied everything is working correctly.
From (about 24.04) the Desktop installer has changed and does not let you create a new ESP (by hand) (UEFI) as a FAT32 but only as a vFAT partition which I do not know if it works. I got around this by a 22.04 install just to create it as FAT32 and then continued on to install 24.04. (Note: I changed from MBR to GPT at the same time.)
When installing, when you get to the question about Ubuntu install, Automatic or Do Something Else - then Do Something Else.
You can delete partitions to make space and then create the three partitions where you want to install them. one at / one at /home and one at /swap. I think you create the partition and then set the mount point. (I suspect you already have a ESP as you had a previous version of 24.04.)
Good luck
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