Manual Partitioning

Note

This installation guide is for the legacy ISO and an updated guide for the new ISOs will be coming soon.

Only users who are dual booting on the same drive should use these instructions. Automatic partitioning is preferred in other cases.

Bazzite only supports the BTRFS filesystem for /

Manual Partitioning Instructions

If you need a tutorial video for manual partitioning, watch this tutorial at timestamp 9:10.

1. Select Installation Destination
2. Select Advanced Custom(Blivet-GUI) under Storage Configuration.
3. Create the following partitions and devices:
4. /boot/efi

   mount point: /boot/efi
   format:      EFI system partition
   size:        300MB
   

5. /boot

   mount point: /boot
   format:      ext4
   size:        2GB
   

6. btrfs partition

   mount point:
   format: btrfs
   size: [max]
   

7. /

   mount point: /
   format:      btrfs (subvolume)
   

8. /var

   mount point: /var
   format:      btrfs (subvolume)
   

9. /var/home

   mount point: /var/home
   format:      btrfs (subvolume)
   

10. Select Done
11. Select Accept Changes
12. Continue with the installation.