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Partitioning when dual-booting Linux with Windows
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I have followed your guide and installed kali linux on my machine with encryption but I did a mistake i did not give enough gbs to all the partions i gave as it was mentioned in your guide and now my kali linux machine is full I only installed minikube on it, please help me how can I increase storage now
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Follow the Kali installation as usual until you encounter the partitioning step - choose "Manual partitioning". This screen is the main one we are going to come back to after each of partitioning operation. I'll be using the highlighted free space to setup the Linux partitions.
boot partition
ext4 - it will be the filesystem encrypted partition.
❗ When writing a guide, I've tried different solutions for placing the boot partition. Now I know it should be set as ext4, /boot mount point, not bootable and not encrypted. I've tried to change the images to correct ones, but I could omit a few. Please just remember ext4, not bootable.
boot in the first phase).
/ mount point (select it and choose Do not mount) and confirm default encryption settings.
You are welcomed with the following screen.
swap, root, var, tmp and home.
ℹ Only
swapandrootare required. I'm using separatevarandtmpmainly because of security reasons, separatehomeallow me to mount that in other distribution.
ℹ Please take these volume sizes with a grain of salt, I'm using small volumes to save on space when writing this guide (it doesn't matter for showcasing this idea).
Now it is time to final step: assigning mount points to freshly created logical volumes.
swap volume and click Continue (or double click).
root volume and click Continue. Fill details as shown below.
With the setup I provided there is one more step - optional - without it, your machine will boot up automatically to Windows. You can still boot the Kali by interrupting the booting process (F2 on my Acer) and selecting the kali from boot manager.
ℹ If you want to be more stealthy with your Kali, so it is a bit harder to determine you are using it, it is perfectly fine to stop here.
Launch Kali either by
Open console and type
sudo su
nano /etc/default/grub
Add the following line:
Save the file and run update-grub command
That's it! Now you can select both Windows and Kali on launch. You successfully achieved dual boot with Windows 11 and Kali on encrypted volume!
