Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as 'partitions'
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I deleted my main partition, how do I recover it?
I accidentally deleted my main partition, however i haven't restarted yet so I still have access to all my files. Is there any way to prevent it being deleted on restart?
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installing ubuntu 13.04 divided my HDD
I just tried installing ubuntu 13.04 and I'm sure I followed the Right steps until he loading screen after the restart required ...when it boot up it asked between win 7 disk1 or win 7 disk2. And ...
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Misaligned partition
I've just installed ubuntu 12.04. I didn't put my data yet, I want before to make sure that the installation is fine. And I get Disk Utility warning about misaligned partition.
I have / on sda1 and ...
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Installing Ubuntu on an MDR disk - problems!
I have an MDR disk with Windows 8 installed and system reserved partition. I have tried installing Ubuntu from both disk and USB, and it just cannot pick up on my partition table either way. It thinks ...
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New to Ubuntu…Installation problem…!
Downloaded ubuntu-12.10-desktop-amd64.iso from official website and created the bootable pen drive using Universal USB Installer. Then I booted with it and when asked to select installation type, I ...
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How to install windows 8, on a computer completely running ubuntu? [closed]
I tried booting from the dvd to install windows 8, but unfortunately I can only install windows 8 on an ntfs hdd. So i got GParted, but I can't create a new partition. I was thinking I could hook up ...
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Correctly align Advanced Format drive?
I bought a new WD Hard Drive. 250Gb, WD2500BPT.
I installed Ubuntu (13.04 was it?) on it. I heard that I don't have to worry about the block size/ alignment.
However,
cat ...
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No such parition, grub rescue
I have a sony viao laptop with windows 7. I have no access to Windows CD/DVD now. I dual booted with Ubuntu 13.04 and everything was working fine. I then copied all my data from windows C drive to ...
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Can I Adjust/Reduce My Partition Size for Ubuntu?
I'm a brand new user to Ubuntu and Linux for that matter. I just installed Ubuntu in a Dual-Boot setup and loaded all the updates I could get.
During installation it asked me to set the partition ...
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How to increase size of partition to take up unallocated space
I have a Ubuntu installation(sda3) with unallocated space that I want to use to use to increase the space of sda5 on the following picture:
The only problem is I cant resize it, gparted says im ...
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Var partition refuses to unmount
I have /var on a separate partition on two computers using the reiserfs filesystem. Everytime I reboot, or shutdown my computers /var refuses to unmount claiming the device is busy. I then have to go ...
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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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Want to install Ubuntu without any change of my hardisk
During installation I have a screen to specify space. Is that can any change of my harddisk.
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Do we still need swap partitions on desktop?
I have read this question, but it was asked in the context of servers not desktops or notebooks.
If a good amount of RAM is installed on a notebook, say 8 GB, do we still need a swap space?
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wubi move to partition [duplicate]
im new in ubuntu and I really liked ubuntu 12.10 with wubi (windows ubuntu installer) and I want to emigrate to the partition system which is more faster, but I don't want to install grub, I want to ...
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Ubuntu and fat partition, why and can I change it?
I have a mac from 2006 and it is already not supported by new Apple system. So I did get back to Linux and I did chose Ubuntu 13.04. I did install Ubuntu side by side with OSX, but I did notice that ...
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Uninstalling Ubuntu. Which partitions to delete?
I installed Ubuntu successfully, however something went wrong and I could boot neither Ubuntu or Windows 8, I was forced to reset the computer.
I now believe Ubuntu and all its associated software is ...
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Getting “error: unknown filesystem grubrescue” after making dynamic partition [duplicate]
I have both ubuntu 13.04 and windows 7 on my laptop. While installing ubuntu by making partition it made E drive unallocated. But when i tried it to make simple volume i ended up in making all ...
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Problem when I try to install ubuntu
When I try to install Ubuntu I got this error:
The ext4 file system creation in partition #1 of SCSI3 (0,0,0) (sda) failed
I boot from USB. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? :D
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What parts of Ubuntu are not written to often?
I'm thinking of purchasing a solid state drive for my computer, to install my operating systems on. It's my understanding that SSDs don't like being written to often, so I want to make sure that the ...
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Gnome Disk Utility: Cannot change passphrase
Specifications: Gnome Disk Utility v.3.0.2 running on 12.04 LTS on a generic AMD64 box used to partition a HDD interfaced via SATA and create the file-system. Options defined were the following: No ...
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Problem to enter in NTFS partition
Sorry if this question is already solved.
I was change my Operative System. (Windows to LInux Ubuntu 13.04). I have 2 partitions 1:C(system) and 2:M (It's NTFS, there I have any information, music, ...
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I'm running Chrubuntu on C7. I'm having a couple issues. Help? [closed]
First off, This is my second time installing a ubuntu partition on my c7 chromebook. I re installed it to see if I could bypass the issues this time. NOPE. One issue is an error message at startup, ...
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Partitioning issue on already installed ubuntu when re-installing
Scenario:
Ubuntu 13.04 is already installed with seperate promary partitions for -
UEFI Boot area
/boot
/home
/
swap
Attempt to reinstall ubuntu 13.04 and in the partitioning options, select ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 install along windows 8 fails [duplicate]
I have a MSI FX-600 laptop with core-i3 330M, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB Hard Disk. My laptop comes with windows 7 pre-installed. I have upgraded it to Windows 8 recently. As it is with windows 7 pre-installed ...
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error: no such partition grub rescue> [duplicate]
Ever since I deleted the partitions after uninstalling Ubuntu 13.04 on my Windows 8 laptop, I have been getting the error message:
error: no such partition
grub rescue>
I have tried many ways to get ...
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Will using DMRAID wipe my drive?
I have a sony win8 laptop -- that I like btw, but would love to dual boot ubuntu or multiboot with some other distros.
After much research and banging my head against the wall, it seems I have a ...
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“Disk drive for dev/mapper/cryptswap 1 is not ready”
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS i-386
I get the message:
Disk Drive for dev/mapper/cryptswap 1 is not ready or not present
as I am booting Ubuntu.
It will give me the message about 3 times and then finally load ...
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Accidentally Wiped out Hard Disk With Windows 8 while installing ubuntu 13.04, Is there any way to recover? [duplicate]
I brought my Dell Inspiron 15R (5521) laptop yesterday only, I tried to installing ubuntu 13.04 as I go along with installation (I selected first option for selecting disk) I think wiped out entire ...
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Help me find a tutorial to dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu 13.04
What I've got is a compatible PC with both systems ,Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 ,I've Windows 7 already installed ,now I want to install Ubuntu, and be able to choose which one I want to boot when I ...
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Is it possible to install Win8 next to an encrypted Ubuntu?
I run Ubuntu on an SDD (encrypted with systemtools since installation). So I want to install Windows 8 on a second partion on the same drive, but it is possible to do so, without chrashing anything, ...
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Hide ubuntu partition in win7 [closed]
I was searching forum but I didn't find solution to my problem.
I've installed Ubuntu 13.04 and Win7 on one HDD in UEFI mode. I'm able to boot in both OS'es separately from grub (added some entries). ...
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How should I partition my 128Gb Crucial SSD in my netbook for Ubuntu 13.04?
I know this is probably a question this is asked over and over again but I'm not finding anything close to an answer that I need. I am installing Ubuntu 13.04 on my Lenovo x130e netbook . It has ...
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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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Ubuntu 13.04 not detecting Windows 7 during Install
I am trying to Install the latest Ubuntu 13.04 on my netbook but the installation is not able to detect any operating system installed on the machine. And asking me to either wipe out the whole disk ...
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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
I have RAID10 ...
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Ubuntu doesn't detect Windows 7 partition
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 on my Windows 7 machine. I have set aside another partition in my only hard drive (1TB). When I put in my CD, the installer does not detect my Windows 7 partition, ...
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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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Install Ubuntu on a second harddrive without messing with other drives or main Windows 7 bootloader?
Lets just say I have 3 hard drives:
c: 500 gig windows 7 with win7 boot loader
d: 1tb nothing on it (but I want a Linux os on it... Ubuntu, debian, fedora ect)
g: 3tb random stuff
I want Ubuntu and ...
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Installation of 12.04, Error 30
I am very new to ubuntu so i would really appreciate your help
I am trying to install 12.04 from a CD but the error message causes the installation to crash. Error 30 - they say its possibly a faulty ...
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Problem after installing Ubuntu 13.04
I installed the 13.04 version on my desktop, on it's own partition,formated it as ext4, alongside Windows 8, after the installation finished and the PC rebooted, I can't go in Ubuntu and can't find ...
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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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Lost Tons of data during Ubuntu 13.04 installation. Please help urgently! [duplicate]
I have a drive of 250 gb which i had partitioned into two. 180 gb had a lot of music. It was my lifetime's collection of music. the other 50 gb had windows installed in it and also had Ubuntu 12.10 on ...
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Partition size for dual boot with Win 8 (UEFI) and Ubuntu (latest desktop version)
If I create a partition on my hard drive for Ubuntu so it can run alongside Win 8 is it possible to alter the size of that partition later?
Does the installation DVD for 13.04 come with a partition ...
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Does LVM enable me to resize my /home partition?
With 13.04 here, I'm planning on wiping my computer and reinstalling. I have two hard drives, and I've heard that LVM allows the two drives to work together, as if they are a single drive.
I've also ...
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How do I install Ubuntu 13.04 & Win 8 dual boot on a samsung series 3 (NP350E5C)?
So I'm trying to install Ubuntu and I've been following the steps in this thread but with limited success.
My first error was after installing Ubuntu alongside Windows, from my USB Live Image, ...
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Windows 7, Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot hard drive issues
I have recently bought a new laptop, and as I use Ubuntu on my desktop, but want to play games on my laptop, i installed both windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 on the laptop. It all went pretty well, I can ...
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Installing fresh Ubuntu 13.04 instead of Ubuntu 12.10
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 and I'm going to install Ubuntu 13.04 tomorrow night. In Iran internet speed isn't very good to upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04. My partition scheme is / , swap and /home. Is ...
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Ubuntu and Mint errno 5
There is no way I could install ubuntu right now.
I have a laptop - samsung r580
I had:
installed windows 7 on ntfs partition
installed ubuntu 12.10 (12.04 upgraded to 12.10) - i dont remember if i ...
