On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 04:46:50PM +1000, Jon Biddell wrote: > This is probablty considered a noob question, but the version of > Calamares provided with Trixie does not seem to have an option for > creating a separate /home partition when installing. > > I know, you can do it all manually, but I'm thinking of noobs that > don't have the conjones to try it themselves. > > Any chance that can be added ?
I found calamares vastly deficient when it comes to disk partitioning: I wanted to do RAID-1 and lvs on top of that. I had to: • do a really simple install onto 1 disk (sda) • partition the other disk (sdb) • create RAID-1 with 1 disk on sdb • set up LVM on sdb • Create logical volumes on LVM • Copy simple install from sda to LVM • fiddle with grub to be able to boot from sdb • boot & run system on sdb That is as far as I have got, the rest is simple, I need to • clear & repartition sda • add partitions on sda to RAID-1 If anyone is really interested I could share my notes. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 https://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers. Registration Information: https://www.phcomp.co.uk/Contact.html #include <std_disclaimer.h>
