The proper partition type code for single partition VB install

[Member stevesr0]

Hi all,

Trying out the cli-installer inside VirtualBox.

For simplicity, I plan to put all the folders within a single partition and setup a second partition for swap.

This means that the user home will be a subdirectory rather than it’s own separate partition. A partition is supposed to have a type identifier. There are separate identifiers for “linux root”, “Linux root verity””Linux /usr”, “Linux /usr verity” and “Linux home”. Does it matter which of these I use for this “all-in-one” partition? If so, do I have to use one of the the “Linux root” types?

**For my initial try, since there are both root and user folders and files involved, I opted for type 20 (Linux Filesystem).

An additional question is – on a virtual machine install, do I need to set up a small UEFI partition or is this done automagically by cli-installer? (I thought I saw a reference to this when I launched the iso in VirtualBox, and I see that the “first” partition starts at sector 2048 so this seems likely.

Thanks for clarification

stevesr0

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