Automated Partitioning Options

Users can select the automated partition options, such as Install alongside, Erase disk, and Replace partition. When using these options, Calamares will use our custom partition layout and create three partitions, in addition to ESP and Swap. Our partition layout uses percentages to assign partition sizes, which scale based on the storage device size, unallocated space, or the selected partition to replace.

The percentages target a device with at least 64GiB of storage; for example, we assign 22% to the root directory, which means the assigned space would be 14.08GiB, leaving enough space for the root.

• The / partition (NX_ROOT) will occupy 22% of the disk and use XFS.
• The /home partition (NX_HOME) will occupy 68% and the /var/lib partition (NX_VAR_LIB) will occupy 10% of the disk, and both use F2FS.
• The /boot/efi The partition (EFI System Partition) is fixed-size (300 MB).
• The swap partition (SWAP) uses whatever space remains on the storage device.

Important Notes

Please be aware that the root directory is immutable, and any directory within the root will be read-only. Our custom partition layout separates user-managed directories from the root.