Questions tagged [partitioning]
Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as 'partitions'
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How to resize partitions?
Previously, I have installed Windows 7 on my 320 GB laptop with three partitions 173, 84 and 63 GB each. The 63 GB partition was where the Windows was installed. The rest were for file containers.
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How to use manual partitioning during installation?
I'd like to see the full How-To on how to use manual partitioning during Ubuntu installation. The existing guides (at least those I found here) cover only automatic part and leave untouched the manual ...
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How do I recover my accidentally lost Windows partitions after installing Ubuntu?
I have a Toshiba satellite A-200 laptop with a Vista OS on it with 4 NTFS partitions
(C:) Vista
(D:) Entertainment
(E:) Work
(F:) Sources
and I wanted to start using Ubuntu instead. So I tried it ...
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Unable to mount Windows 10 partition; it "is in an unsafe state" [duplicate]
I have both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Windows 10 Pro installed and I use them both very often.
Sometimes, when using Ubuntu, I can see and use Windows partitions also. But sometimes, I cannot. I dont know ...
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How to prepare a disk on an EFI based PC for Ubuntu?
My computer has UEFI based BIOS and I want to start over from scratch.
The PC came with Windows installed - I later installed Ubuntu alongside.
I want to completely re-build my whole disk and ...
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My /boot partition hit 100% and now I can't upgrade. Can't remove old kernels to make room
My first issue was when I tried to apt-get update or apt-get upgrade. On upgrade I get the following error:
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have ...
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Storing data on second HDD, mounting
I have a new laptop with SSD + HDD. I already managed to set up a dual boot with Windows 10 preinstalled and Ubuntu 17.10.
Ubuntu root, home and swap directories are all on the SSD. In addition I ...
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My disk already has 4 primary partitions, how can I install Ubuntu?
I would like to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7 on a HP G62 Notebook. Although I have installed Ubuntu in a dual-boot many times before, I found out that this model has already four partitions.
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How can I resize an LVM partition? (i.e: physical volume)
I want to shrink my second (LVM) partition, in order to create a new partition in the newly freed space. I am using the Live CD to do so, because I know I can't resize/move this partition while it is ...
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How to extend my root (/) partition?
Till today I was using ubuntu 13.04 in my windows7/ubuntu dual boot. Just now I have upgraded to ubuntu 14.04. My software updater showed an updates available message. I proceeded with Install Now . ...
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What's your recommendation on drive partitioning schemes for a desktop and home server? [closed]
What partitioning scheme do you recommend for a desktop? I've always created three or four primary partitions -- root, swap, home, and sometimes a separate boot partition. Ubuntu's default install ...
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Why I'm seeing a lock besides the partition I'm trying to modify with gparted?
I wanted to create more space for Ubuntu on my hard disk in favor of my Windows partition. I booted the livecd and resized the NTFS partition to 100 GB. Then I wanted to resize my Ubuntu (ext4) ...
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How to recover a deleted NTFS partition with data
I am on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bits
I accidentally deleted a NTFS 255 GB partition using Gparted, and yes it contains LOTS of important data.
Upon realizing the deletion I haven't yet created any file-...
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How can I reinstall GRUB to the EFI partition?
I want to reinstall GRUB 2 and I found these instructions:
How to Repair, Restore, or Reinstall Grub 2 with a Ubuntu Live CD or USB.
In my case, the boot loader is installed in the EFI partition. If I ...
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How to efficiently partition a single Windows-Ubuntu dual boot disk?
This is not a question on how to install Ubuntu or how to use manual partitioning during installation but is a question on access rights and how not to let them bite you in the lower abdomen... ;-)
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Why can't I install Ubuntu or Wubi on a Windows Dynamic Disk?
I've been trying to install 12.04 for a while now, I'm running on Windows 7 and I already made the partition (it's dynamic). I've tried booting from a disc and also the Windows installer. I haven't ...
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'Upgraded' to Windows 10 on dual boot, and can't boot to Ubuntu partition
I recently updated my windows 7 to 10, and destroyed grub in the process. I ran Boot-Repair on a live CD and managed to get the Windows Partition back. However grub still doesn't come up for me.
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How can I resize an ext root partition at runtime?
How can I increase the size of the root partition of a system at runtime?
I have a partition that is not allocated after the root partition (which is also ext4), how can I add that unallocated space ...
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How is it easier to make a persistent live drive with Ubuntu 19.10?
Persistent live drive with a partition for persistence
There are some web sites describing
new tools
new features in [new versions of] old tools
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How much swap should I take for 1GB to 8TB of RAM on 14.04 or higher?
I'm going to install 64 bit 14.04 on a new machine with something like 1 to maybe 128GB RAM and even more RAM later. How much space should I allocate to the swap partition?
And especially: WHY those ...
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Deleted Partition Recovery
I was installing ubuntu 12.04 on my system. There were 4 partitions on my system and I selected one of the four partition for the installation and chose the option of resizing the partition. Initially ...
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Changing Windows dynamic disk partition to basic partition and not the full drive
I have a Lenovo G505s with Win8 installed on it. I would like to install Ubuntu 14.04 on it, and I've followed all the procedures to disable the secure boot and fast boot successfully.
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Partitions disappeared after power loss while installing
I had Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installed on my Laptop. After a while I had some troubles starting it up. I decided to reinstall Ubuntu.
I had 3 ntfs partitions, 2 ext3 partitions the mount point for the ...
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How do I resize my current ubuntu partition? [duplicate]
I've got Ubuntu 10.10 installed to use my whole hard-disk, but would like to use the 130GB of free space I've got to create a new partition and do some development on Unity and Natty.
Can I use ...
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How can I move my /home directory to another partition if it's already part of the / partition?
I have a wonderful running Maverick Meerkat install going on right now. I want to move my /home to another partition as per many suggestions.
How can I go about doing this without reinstalling the ...
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Fastest way to copy HDD
Given HDD 1TB with a two partitions: one is small ~24GB (for Ubuntu) and all the rest is the second partition with about 10% occupied space for multimedia files.
I want to duplicate it as fast as ...
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Why is the installer not showing any partitions?
I'm having a problem installing Ubuntu, and Kali as well. I downloaded the iso from the official site & tried installing using USB. I also tried desktop installation, but the problem is same.
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Fix corrupt NTFS partition without Windows
MY NTFS Partition has gotten corrupt somehow (it's a relic from the days when I had Windows installed).
I'm putting the debug output of fdisk and blkid here.
At the same time, any OS is unable to ...
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How to rename partitions?
I'm new at Ubuntu; I installed Ubuntu 12.10 and the partitions appear like 30 GB volume and like 78EF-2C5E in task bar. I tried to rename it but rename and remove buttons are deactivated so I tried by ...
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How to partition SSD+HDD?
I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 on 1TB HDD and have installed lots of packages and softwares. Now i've bought an 128GB SSD, I have few questions on how to partition SSD and HDD and how to move my ...
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Installing programs in root vs home partitions?
I'm a new Linux user and a Windows convert. I tried Ubuntu (Dapper Drake) a few years ago and liked it quite a bit, and I'm in the process of installing Xubuntu 13.10 along side Windows7 on my brand ...
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What are the pros and cons of having a separate home partition?
This is not a question about how to create a home partition, just as a caveat. :)
What are the pros and cons to having a separate home partition? How do I know if having one is right for me? Will it ...
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How to move Ubuntu to an SSD
My current situation is:
One hard disk
Dual boot Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7. Partitions:
100MB Windows System thingy
144GB Main Windows
160GB Ubuntu
4GB Swap
12GB System Restore stuff
Now I want to ...
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Terminal method of formatting storage drive
I want to know how to format a storage drive from the terminal. Helpful things to provide in the answer would be often used options for commands and base knowledge that one can use to extrapolate ...
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How does Ubuntu partition the disk when we choose "Erase disk and install Ubuntu" during installation?
How will Ubuntu automatically allocate the disk partition sizes when we select Erase disk and install Ubuntu during installation?
Can the settings for automatic space allocation be changed?
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ext4 partition size / free space discrepancies
While creating a 250GiB backup partition for my data, I have noticed lots of discrepancies between reported partition size and free space in Nautilus, gParted, df, tune2fs, etc.
At first I thought it ...
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How do I resize root partition?
I have a dual boot setup with Ubuntu and Windows 7. I need to shrink my root Ubuntu volume in order to get some free space to create a new partition. Are there any Windows based tools that will do ...
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Installation problems with GRUB, can only install by reinstalling Windows in legacy mode but need to keep in UEFI mode
I've been trying to install Kubuntu 18.04 and I keep running into the same problem of the installer getting to the point where it needs to install grub and fails with the message:
Can't install ...
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Multi-partition multi OS bootable USB
I want to create a recovery flash drive. I have my 8 gb flash drive[Kingston data traveller] with me. I also have the required .iso files for a>Ubuntu 13.10 b>Boot-repair disk c>AVG Rescue CD
I Wish ...
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Installing Ubuntu on a single partition
I’m trying to install Ubuntu 16.04 alongside with Windows 7. My HDD supports only 4 partitions. Three of the partitions are taken up by windows. The fourth one is labelled as free space.
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How to fix "Partition does not start on physical sector boundary" warning?
I have one HDD on my laptop, with two partitions (one ext3 with Ubuntu 12.04 installed and one swap).
fdisk is giving me the following warning:
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary
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How to combine an SSD boot drive with a HDD data drive? [closed]
I have an SSD with 64 GB and a 6 GB/s 1 Terabyte hard drive. I want to use the SSD only as a boot device and maybe for swap storage. On the 1 Terabyte hard drive, I want to have the main file system. ...
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How to hide a(n) (NTFS) partition from ubuntu
I need to hide an NTFS partition from listing in the nautilus. How can I achieve that?
Is there any tool to do that?
And how can I hide files in ubuntu (except . operator)
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Install dual boot ubuntu with windows 10 and RAID on
I have a dell XP’s 9560 laptop and I want to install an Ubuntu distribution alongside windows 10. I tried a lot so far to install it but I can’t see any partitions. I figured out that the problem is ...
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What does the term "Extended Partition" mean? Is it safe to use this type of partition?
In the image below, what does Extended 103 GB mean?
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Partitions for Ubuntu and Windows 7 dual boot on SSD + HDD setup
I have purchased a new SSD (120GB) and I had a HDD (1TB) already installed. I will install both Ubuntu and Windows on these drives. As the file space on the SSD is limited and I've read that writing ...
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How to remove Ubuntu from dual boot system with Windows?
I wish to remove Ubuntu and I'm not quite sure how. I know it has something to do with partitions. I have 3 partitions. 1. OS [683 GB] 2. Recovery [14 GB] 3. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (E:)
I know it says ...
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any problems with this partition scheme?
I must create a new ubuntu 12.04.2 boot disk after the /boot directory on my old HDD got corrupted. The following is the partition scheme I'm planning. Is there anything wrong with this for this ...
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What is LVM and what is it used for?
As a Linux/Ubuntu newbie, what is LVM and what is it used for?
In terms of a web server installation, what benefits does it provide?
Would you recommend using it?
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"physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512" when formatting USB - How to create a bootable USB without this error
I was using:
dd if=/path/to/my/ubuntuiso/ubuntu.iso of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4M && sync
In order to create bootable Ubuntu USB drives on older Ubuntu versions. It was working perfectly. ...
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