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Custom Partitioning

Jeremy Pardo edited this page May 11, 2020 · 45 revisions

If your plan is to install Arch Linux on more than one disk or if you don't want to format an entire drive, you have to select no at Do you wish to install Arch Linux on a dedicated DRIVE?. This option requires you to create and format partitions before running archboot, only partitions drive ID will be prompted.

Partitioning scheme

SYSTEM_PARTITION......: /mnt            (required)
BOOT_PARTITION........: /mnt/boot       (required)
SWAP_PARTITION........: no mountpoint   (optional)
HOME_PARTITION........: /mnt/home       (optional)
  • 🚨 UEFI boot partition requires EFI partition type ef00 with FAT32 filesystem !
  • 🚨 LVM partitions requires LVM partition type 8e00 with Volume Group Name (VG): lvm !
  • 🚨 LUKS encryption requires Physical Group Name (PV): cryptlvm !