experimenting with my 2014 macbook pro and several linux distros (xubuntu, mint, fedora)
So far I have 8 partitions:
- 1 EFI for grub,
- 1 hfs+ (Linux HFS+ ESP) for OCLP, I think,
- 1 apfs for the macOS 14 I cannot boot,
- 2 ext4 for xubuntu and mint
- 1 brfs for fedora (so it cannot be ext4?)
- 2 unallocated ones, because I deleted systems I don’t want.
I use gparted: the 2 unallocated sections are separated. Is this a problem?
How many partitions are too many for this machine? 247 GiB storage and 7.66 GiB memory.
After I’m done experimenting and keep the 2 to 3 operative systems I like, should I wipe the notebook, create the 2 to 3 partitions I’m going to need and reinstall? Or would it be better to simply delete the partitions I don’t want?
Thats not really possible here. All they do is install multiple distros in parallel.
You probably could do it like that… but I think you might run into weird issues, like Debian trying to use Ubuntu’s boot volume or something.
The only 2 scenarios where I can see problems are: old distros that must have a boot partition or outdated installers that will not recognize LVM volumes.
Yes it probably works, but when installing Distros I would always recommend using their standard partition layout