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Recovery from hell - undeleting partition overwritten by Xubuntu 12.10 installer?

This is turning into a nightmare - following my initial recovery of my two partitions, I went to install Xubuntu 12.10 (again). At this time I had two partitions - one of ~39 GB had Zorin OS 6 ...
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What partition to use to keep data files in Ubuntu?

I have been using Ubuntu for a few years and usually my partition set up was the following: Ext3 or Ext4 partition for the system itself (20 GB); A 10 GB swap partition; a big FAT32 partition to ...
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What are the benefits (or drawbacks) in creating file-system directly on hard drive rather than on a partition? [closed]

For an example, what are the advantages (or optionally disadvantages) of creating a Linux file-system (ext3 or ext4) directly on hard drive (i.e mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb) rather than making it on a ...
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The partition table is corrupt

I have a corrupt the partition table on the laptop that is running Ubuntu 10.4. Before the partition table was corrupt I had the following partitions: 2 primary partitions: 1st - NTFS 2nd - Extended ...
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If I change my home from ext3 to ext4 when installing will my data be lost?

If I change my home from ext3 to ext4 when installing will my data be lost?
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JFS vs. EXT4 vs. EXT3 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is the best way to partition, and what is the best file-system for a new Hard Disk? I've got a 2TB external HD on which I save valuable data. so far I'm using NTFS ...