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?
Lvm could be the way to go. Start with the minimum amount of partitions (i.e. / and /boot and swap as lv, maybe efi as a real partition). Add additional lv later if/ when you need them. You can always re-size a partition and the wrapping lv when you want to re- distribute storage-space.
I never needed more than these partitions. But that is just my use case.
Edit: oh. Missed the Multi boot point. Forget what I wrote. :)
