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i'm a new linux user and I feel like I messed up my Partitions. I have around 600GB to use and it shows I have 5.5 GB of free space, so did I mess up my free space partitioning and would I just need to boot from the CD and change it?
I wasn't 100% sure on partitioning so I think I failed >.< |
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That is swap, which has nothing to do with your free space don't worry. /dev/sda2 is where your files and Operating System are stored. Do not touch swap, as it is important for your OS to boot. You don't have to change it, there is nothing wrong. |
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Actually, there is a bit of a problem with this partition scheme (but it's not the memory, which is fine. You've allocated 571 GiB for / (root) but only 17 GiB for /home, which is possibly back to front from what you intended. As you can see there's only 12 GiB used on / and it's likely that it will not get much larger than this unless you are going to install a huge database program or just about every other program in the repository. On the other hand /home is where you be putting all your data (/home/username) and 17 GiB is a little small. I would suggest you boot off the LiveCD and use gparted to adjust / to be about 25 GiB and use the rest for /home. |
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ubuntu use some spaces for swapping but everything seems right there! as Rinzwind analyze for you there is about 576 Gb free space in both /home and your / directories so there would be about 24Gb space used for your softwares and ubuntu itself besides swap space. |
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