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GParted notes

gparted is very reliable, but you may still crash your PC because you don't put the right partitions at the right place…

Make sure you know what you are doing, and if possible, make a backup of the disk with Clonezilla before!

Creating a gparted boot USB stick

Choosing the partitions

Creating the partitions

Prerequisites

WARNING! If you have a mSATA SSD disk to accelerate your system, you have to disable the acceleration
A gparted boot USB stick

Steps

Make sure that booting on a USB storage is activated in the BIOS
Connect the USB stick to the machine
Switch on the machine and choose the following options
1. GParted live or Other modes of GParted live ⇒ To RAM
2. Default keyboard (Don't touch keymap)
3. Default language (US English)
4. Continue to start X and wait for the GParted graphical interface to appear
5. Select the disk that you want to partition in the pull-down menu
  1. WARNING! Do not do anything if there is nothing displayed in the Used and Unused columns. It's possible that you have a cache accelerated disk. You have to disable the acceleration before you do anything else
6. Look
  1. WARNING. leave space at the end of the disk

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