How to install with additional partition

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Hi,

I have to set up a new IPFire installation on a device that may take only a single drive. This will be a 2TB ssd and needs to have a partition for samba share.

How can I set up IPFire with a additional partition for samba?

Cheers

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EDIT: text modified for accuracy and references.

IPFire creates 4 partitions (see below): boot, efi, swap and main using a msdos partition scheme (max 4 primary partitions and 2 TB limitations, therefore you need to convert one of them into an extended partition segmented in two logical partitions).

After installing IPFire I would boot a live gparted usb or unplug the disk and mount it on linux machine with gparted. Then I would resize the main partition (the one mounting the root, number 4 in the example below) changing it into and extended partition, and segmenting it into two logical partitions, including the extra one dedicated to samba. You can find many tutorials like this one to give you some idea of how to proceed.

[root@ipfire cfusco]# parted -l
Model: ATA KINGSTON SMS200S (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system     Flags
 1      1049kB  135MB   134MB   primary  ext4            boot
 2      135MB   169MB   33.6MB  primary  fat16           esp
 3      169MB   1198MB  1029MB  primary  linux-swap(v1)  swap
 4      1198MB  60.0GB  58.8GB  primary  ext4
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So there is no way to edit something like a config that will be used during the setup to create an additional partition?

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No there is isn’t.