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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What about the other partition after installing?
I am going to install Ubuntu 13.04-x64 on my PC. Currently, I have two hard disk partitions as "C" on which I have my windows 8 installed and "D" which contain all my personal files. I having no ...
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Partition installing ubuntu 13.04
I am installing Ubuntu on 250GB space. Entire 250GB for ubuntu, I would like to know what would be recommended partition sizes, also couple of terms like logical and primary partition is also what I ...
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How do I get Ubuntu 13.04 to recognize my pre-installed windows 8 OS?
I am completely new to installing Ubuntu. I really wanted an easy install however it seems that is impossible. I am familiar with using ubuntu though and I would like to be able to have it on this ...
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When I am trying to install Ubuntu for a dual boot, the drive I pick is showing more gigabytes than it actually is
I am trying to make my laptop dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7. I have read several tutorials out there and once dabbled with Linux distributions years ago before there really was any tutorials, ...
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only one file system is placed in my computer
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I had partitioned 320 GB as follows,
77GB,ext2,mount=/boot
77GB,ext3,mount=/
77GB,ext4,mount=/home
77GB,ReiserFS,mount=/usr
13 GB swap.
In this partitions I can't use any ...
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How can I give windows permission to one of my EXT3 partitions in ubuntu?
I have an ext3 partition I would like to share with windows. I have the ext2fsd driver for windows, which works great. I can view all of my ubuntu files from windows. The only problem is that I don'...
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Ubuntu Partition/Dual-Boot HELP!
I recently got a PC with Windows 8 pre-installed. It has a 1TB HDD and 24GB SSD. So I decided to dual-boot with Ubuntu, using the simple method ("Install Ubuntu beside W8"). However, the only disk ...
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I cant make a partition for Ubuntu
I am running windows 8 and I want to dual boot with ubuntu 13.04. According to this post:
Installing Ubuntu Alongside a Pre-Installed Windows with UEFI
I should make the partition for Ubuntu in ...
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error in disk partitioning during ubuntu server 12.04 install
I'm installing ubuntu server on an old 2003 dell computer that has a 2 GHz intel processor, 128 MB RAM and 40 GB HDD. I'm installing from a multiboot usb. Everything goes fine; however when I get to ...
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My Gparted does not work propperly
[Please be nice to me - I'm not an expert in Linux]
You can see the errorlog provided by GParted here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/8o43b37c7fue1f9/gparted_details.htm
Hi Askubuntu. I am trying ...
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Partition splitting during installation
I already have a Ext4 partition on my hard drive. During Ubuntu's installation the setup shows me an option to split a partition. Apparently I am being forced to define a new partition, but I just ...
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Clone Ubuntu on USB to a larger USB stick?
I have an old, unbranded 2GB USB with 10.10 that is running a Samba server connected to a RAID array (basically a makeshift NAS.) As most people do, I started running out of space with the various ...
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How to add my Windows 8 partition into Ubuntu 12.04 partition
I have installed a side by side Ubuntu 12.04 along with my Windows 8,
Now i want to delete Windows 8 completely and i want to add size to my Ubuntu partition fully.
What should i do now to increase ...
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Install Ubuntu on a separate hard-drive in dualboot
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 on a hard-drive that is separate from the one Windows 7 is on. I have two drives in my computer and the second is unused and blank.
However, when I go to install ...
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Remove drive partitions before Installing 12.04?
I have an old box and want to switch to Ubuntu 12.04. It has two hard drives. The first is a 40 gig disk that runs Windows XP; the other is 80 gigs partitioned into 40, 20, and 20 gigs.
I am ...
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how to restore window partition in ubuntu dual booting? [duplicate]
my pc hard disk 500gb.my computer C,D,E,F,G ,H Partition .c is window 8 partition.H installed Ubuntu 12.10 used dual booting. I try replaced Ubuntu 13.04 install .I choose erase button few seconds I ...
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Partitioning File System Drive
When installing Ubuntu I was told to set the size constraints for my File System drive and my... Other Stuff Drive (the official name). However, I slid the slider the wrong way, leaving me with 230gb ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 After installation (D drive and E drive in Windows System) are missing!
After Installing Ubuntu 12.10 with Installation option "Replace Windows 8 with Ubuntu" I can't see any drive[ D: and E: ] mounted in Ubuntu. They are not even under /mnt/ location. What the hell had ...
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How to make a fresh install while also creating new partitions and keeping encrypted home directory
How can a machine be securely migrated from "Ubuntu - single partition - home directory encrypted" to "Debian - separated partitions for OS and home, and maybe for swap too if that is an advantage - ...
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I have recently installed ubuntu after i erased my hdd and I dont know if the hdd has only one partition now
I am new to Ubuntu(coming from windows), and I don't know if the install went right: I understand that by default there should be 2 partitions after the install so i run this command
sudo fdisk -l
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Installing ubuntu 12.0.4 along side windows 8 New partition table blank
Trying to install ubuntu 12.04 along side windows 8 using an usb.
In the Installtion Type menu where it shows the existing partitions, the menu is blank.
If I click New partition table nothing happens....
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I want to install windows 7 64 bit alongside ubuntu, but the windows installer won't install in the ntfs partition
Good day, I installed Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit on the entire partition on a laptop without an OS (Lenovo G480 i5-3230). Then, I decided to create an NTFS partition to install windows 7 64 bit (using a ...
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Can't boot after installing Ubuntu into separate partition
When I try to boot my computer, I just get a command prompt:
"no such partition
grub>_"
I partitioned my computer hard disk into two partitions:
-- First partition (C:) has the already installed ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 can't see Windows 7 [duplicate]
I already read other questions like this but nothing seems to work.
I just had my ASUS UX31A recovered from factory with Windows 7. Everything is fine there, so I tried to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (...
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File operations not permitted on ntfs file system on Thoshiba 1TB external hard disk in Ubuntu 11.10
Recently I buy a Thoshiba external hard disk. And I make a NTFS partition. Now it is read only mode in Ubuntu 11.10. Now I can't able to copy from my system / create folder in HDD. But copying from ...
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1 or 2 partitions for 2 op-systems (Windows 7 + Ubuntu)? [duplicate]
What is recommended: installing Ubuntu in the same partition as Windows 7 - or in a separated one?
Ubuntu says:
Begin the installation
Depending on your previous selections, you can now verify that ...
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trying to dual boot Win 8 and Ubuntu 12.10
I have been trying to install Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 ( 64 Bit ) on a Lenovo twist notebook.
I have now installed Windows 8 ( with UEFI, secure boot disabled ) and I am following the instructions ...
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New XPS, Starting on Linux, Still a Windows power user, configuration question
I just bought a Dell XPS with Windows 8. Spent several months making the choice. The OS is on the 500GB HDD, and the 32GB SSD is used as cache.. seems standard.
I've been wanting to get into Linux ...
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"Disk I/O error:" Can not write anything to mounted partitions
Recently I have lot of DISK I/O Errors. I am not able to save anything even on my home partition. I have the same problems in 12.04, 12.10 and now in 13.04.
Following is the output of mtab
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How can we restore If all kernel has removed by mistaken it has RAID10
how we can restore the server if we removed the all kernels, and I have the RAID 10. in this case I try to recover with live-cd but I am not able to mounting partition because
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Ubuntu 12.04 sees NTFS partition but not Windows 7
Trying to install Ubuntu on a Windows machine running Windows 7. I started by using the WUBI, but when I restarted the computer it just went straight to Windows. Then I went into the disk management ...
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resize non-adjacent partitions?
I have a dual boot with three main partitions, one each for Ubuntu, Windows, and my files. I want to make the one with Windows ("OS") a bit larger, which would have to be at the expense of the one ...
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Two home folder. Ubuntu 12.10
Hi to all,
Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.10. It's very nice and I like it very much. I have a few doubts about folders, as I was previously using Windows. In Windows, I have 3 local disks C,D,E. Now ...
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How To Create A Small System Partition For Mythbuntu [duplicate]
I have Mythbuntu 12.04 running with system files and MythTV recordings in the same partition. I'd like to repartition the disk (perhaps using a second interim drive) to make a small system partition ...
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Hard Disk Formatting Error
so here is the situation..
I installed Ubuntu, pretty sweet.... all was going well till i tried to install an application " LPCXpresso IDE for ARM micro controllers" now the PC hung up as soon as the ...
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Access, from Windows, files copied from Ubuntu to a media partition
I have a laptop with 3 partitions on a 500gb hdd:
Windows 8 - 60gb - ntfs
Ubuntu 12.4 - 40gb - ext4
A media partition - 390gb - ntfs
I copied music files to the media partition while using Ubuntu ...
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How shall I partition my disk
I installed Ubuntu 64bit on a new Dell XPS 8500.
As I had no idea how to partition my disk, I installed everything in one partition.
The disk has 2TB and there is an additional 64GB SSD inside, ...
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Wubi Migration: Grub does not boot
I migrated from a wubi install on a SSD (dev/sda), with the virtual disk on a separate drive (/dev/sdb), to a brand new partition on the separate drive
I recall during me running the wubi-move script,...
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No device file for partition in /dev/
I did partition /dev/sda1 using fdisk.
After creating two partitions, saved the table. And rebooted the server. But there is no device file present for new partitions.
:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/...
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expanding the current running operating system partition [duplicate]
I have dual booted my pc from windows to ubuntu 12.10v. I actually had done it by shrinking the 500GB volume to half a part to windows and half to ubuntu. Now I am facing an issue called low disk ...
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Can't enlarge swap drive
Running Ubuntu 12.04 on a Toshiba Netbook.
Netbook has like .8 gigs of Ram so I'm trying to offset the crappy ram amount with a larger swap drive.
Tried to do it from a pretty detailed tutorial, was ...
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Ubuntu Installer cannot see windows os partition and sees my hard drive as blank?
Good day,
I have just downloaded ubuntu 12.10 today using windows 7 and installed it to my SD card. I booted up using the sdcard, and everything was going perfectly well until Ubuntu said i currently ...
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Why is the Ubuntu partition seen as unallocated space after Windows 8 upgrade?
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 with Windows 7 as dual-boot. Today I decided to upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 8 on the other partition. I read on some forums that I would most likely need a liveUSB to ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 doesn't recognize partitions [duplicate]
I just did a clean install of Windows 7 on a brand new laptop (Packard Bell EasyNote LE).
I created 3 partitions:
150 GB on which I installed Windows 7
50 GB for Ubuntu
270 GB for file storage
When ...
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Can't install Ubuntu 12.04 - No available partitions
I am unable to install Ubuntu 12.04 because it cannot recognize the partition. More technically: "Partition table entries are not in disk order"
When I try to install and reach the ...
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Sharing /home partition between Linux OSs
I've been using Ubuntu as my main OS for a while, but I read about Elementary OS and I wanted to try it so I installed it.
I wanted to share /home partition between both OSs but I forgot to do it ...
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Want to re-instate windows as primary OS [duplicate]
I want to move ubuntu off an old drive so I repartitioned it and made windows one partition (I was dual-booting). The problem I have is that I have no idea how to boot into windows after ubuntu had ...
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Installing Ubuntu from a bootable USB, what size to make partitions? [duplicate]
Well, I have to switch over to Ubuntu last night after a disastrous reformatting. And I have some questions.
So I successfully got Ubuntu going from the USB and I selected to also install it onto the ...
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Recover failed RAID1 software Partition / missing partition table or superblock
i already read & tried different approaches for 2 days now but nothing seems to work.
I have 2 HDDs, on each one is an partition with 200GB which i had in RAID1. Then i installed XBMC and tried to ...
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Disk partitioning ubuntu 12.10
I am planning to install Ubuntu 12.10 along with windows.
I would like to know how to partition the drive so that I can access all my data
in windows and keep one separate 20 GB for Ubuntu...
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