Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as 'partitions'
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Is it safe to use a USB external drive without a valid partition table?
Here's what I did:
Installed the SATA hard disk in the enclosure
Connected it via USB
With Disk Utility I formatted the drive with an EXT4 file system
Started using the hard drive without any issue ...
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Installing Ubuntu with Windows, which is left and right when allocating space? [duplicate]
I am facing a problem while installing the ubuntu on my laptop which already consists windows7 in it. Actually I have a doubt ,which side to choose? I have already made one of the drives free to ...
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Recommended dual boot partitioning for Asus N56VM s4089V Windows 7 64bit
Being brand new to this, although I've done alot of research, I would like confirmation that what I want to do is achievable with the current disk partition I have on my laptop.
Current set up via ...
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GUID (GPT) to MBR [closed]
I need help changing my hard drive from GPT to MBR in order to install Windows 7, I am currently running Ubuntu 12.10 desktop. Thank you to everyone who responds!
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Need Help For Partition
My laptops (compaqcq43-400tu) hard disk space is 500 GB.
How can I maintenance partitioning for my system?
I mean, for root/home/swap- How many spaces should I include for these categories?
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Deleted Windows boot partition by mistake
I have Windows 7 installed on my laptop. Today, while trying to manually partition the drive for Linux install, I accidentally formatted the 100 MB System Reserved partition to ext4. Then, I ignored ...
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Reinstalling Leopard on Mac [Running Ubuntu]
So I was stuck with the Prohibitary sign on my Mac...
I gave up trying to reinstall Leopard as I didn't have the recovery disk
I ended up burning Ubuntu to a CD and installing it
I have no problems ...
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How to install Ubuntu 12.04 server with RAID1?
I have spent the last 4 days or so trying to setup Ubuntu server 12.04.2 with RAID1. I have looked at several different links and tried different configurations and workarounds. So far, I have not ...
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Computer shut down during resizing of drive, stuck!
Basically I was trying to resize my drive since I was low on disk space for the Ubuntu OS using a WUBI of Ubuntu 12.10(I believe that or 12.04). But my computer shut down in the process. Now when I ...
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How can I speed up a partition resize using gparted?
Shrinking and expanding partition using gparted in old versions of ubuntu was very fast. Moving a partition was the only time-consuming task and the time depend on size of partition.
In new versions ...
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Need to expand /boot partition but not sure if I can
So I've been having some trouble installing updates lately because my boot partition has run out of space. I did some research to try and find the best way to expand the partition, but after looking ...
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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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Will partition sequence affect dual booting Win7 + Ubuntu 12.10?
Current partition sequence:
PQService (Acer)
System Reserved
Windows 7
Shared Data (NTFS)
Total of 4 Primary partitions
I want to install Ubuntu by deleting the PQService because I don't need it ...
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How to create a LVM Partition/physical volume > 2TB
I was following this tutorial found here: How to set up multiple hard drives as one volume?
Which was working out great however i have a 3TB drive and every time i create the partition (whether it be ...
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How to create partition without formatting drive?
I am have some doubts in partition my external drive.
I am have external drive of capacity 2TB formatted in NTFS . 1.5 TB is used in hard drive.
I want to create one partition of 200 GB in FAT . But I ...
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Grub corrupted and etc directory missing
I have a dual installation with Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7. I was in windows, I had to restart my machine and my grub was not loading. I used boot-repair to load my grub. However, my linux ...
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How to Install Ubuntu 12.04 With Win7 Dual-Boot
I had been using Ubuntu for a little while now and I must say very nice a few hardware compatibility issues but that's not why I am here. I have recently uninstalled Ubuntu because I did not feel safe ...
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How to mount Apple Core Storage partition
So I wiped my Mac Mini (OS X Lion) and replaced the OS with Ubuntu 12.04.2. So far so good, it works beautifully. But I'd like to still access the external backup drive's Time Machine contents. The ...
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Can't access Windows 7 partition and blkid crashes when I try
I found nothing about this specific problem on the internet so I'm asking for help here:
Once I had Windows 7 and Ubuntu on dual boot working flawlessly. Then I bought a new internal 1 TB HD and ...
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Get files from “broken” Ubuntu Partitions
Sorry, sadly my laptop HATES all linux versions I have tried so far..
I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 now, and it smashed its way clumsily though my system.
The NTFS partition I made in ubuntu for ...
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Messed up SuperBlock/Journal SDCARD
I had recently partitioned my SDCARD to work with my phone. Added an EXT4 and FAT32 partitions. After a power failure the data got corrupted. I can still see it but it's not the same as before. I've ...
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Moving Kubuntu from hdd to ssd
I bought a new SSD to install it in my HTPC. Before, I had an HDD with Kubuntu. I would need to copy the files from the / partition from HDD to SSD.
To do this, I booted from the Kubuntu livecd, ...
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Move entire installation to blank partition
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed on a second hard drive (sdb). I had a windows ntfs partition before that for storage but have subsequently purchased an external hard drive and transferred those files ...
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Secondary Storage not properly mounted
Not all of my secondary discs partitions are visible.When i open it from GParted it shows NTFS signature missing.Is there any way to fix this without lossing any data??
This drive(secondary) has 4 ...
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How to get back to windows after install Ubuntu in the same partition?
I have two partition on my system. On one partition, I keep my data, and on other I install my OS.
By mistake, I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on the drive I had installed Windows. Now I need to get back ...
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messed up with mount and naming a partition - delete a folder in file system
I have a partition /dev/sda8 which I want to name it "Documents" and automount.
Because I have a long time to use these commands ,I messed up a little (not that I am familiar).
I used gparted and ...
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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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Deleted my Ubuntu partition and now I get grub rescue [duplicate]
After deleting my partition I get the error: unknown filesystem grub resuce>
I tried booting from a USB into Ubuntu and SuperGrub but it just went straight back to grub rescue. Any ideas?
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Non stop comments about failed installs due to partition problems? HOW do I install ubuntu and not lose win 7?
I have read a couple dozen comments about partition issues, but do not see clear direction. I am at the installation type screen and have no freaking idea what EXACTLY what I need to do. Do I +- ...
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how to access my windows partition after installed ubuntu? [duplicate]
how to access my windows partition after installed ubuntu?
Hi I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 after that i am not able to access my windows drive?
can anyone pls help me, how to access the data.
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lvm disappeared after disc replacement on raid10
here my problem:
I am running ubuntu 12.04 on a raid10 (4 disks), on top of which I installed an lvm with two volume groups (one for /, one for /home).
The layout of the disks are as follows:
Disk ...
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No operating system or formatted partition(s) on laptop
I have about 20 IBM Lenovo ThinkPad laptops, R52, that are being donated to a school in the Dominican Repulic. There is absolutely nothing on them! I am trying to load Ubuntu Mint on them and have ...
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Attempted downgrade from GRUB2 to GRUB; can't boot into ubuntu anymore
So I just did a clean install of windows 7 ultimate and installed ubuntu 12.10 beside it. I kept the windows bootloader in the mbr at the advice if my tutorial (i used easyBCD to enable an option for ...
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Lenovo ThinkServer Ubuntu 12 Server Install: Partition Issues
During the Ubuntu 12 install, I get the a screen that says "ATA RAID Device Detected" and asks if I want to enable it. Having used Lenovo Easy Setup to configure the raid (1 array with 2 1tb drives) I ...
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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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Are there any LVM gotchas?
I have been playing around with LVM on a virtual machine. Until now I have found only advantages on it and I'm thinking about using it on my real machine the next time I do a fresh install.
I have ...
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Linux: how swap is reported by free/top. How to determine correctly swap usage by process
Can somebody please explain how swap is reported in Linux?
I'm asking this because free and top commands reports some swap used that cannot be found in /proc/$PID/status.
grep --color VmSwap ...
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why did win installer only allocate me 17gb space when installing ubuntu 12.4
I have two seperate hddsinstalled c: 160gb hold winxp sp3 and D: 500GB ntfs storage I downloaded ubuntu 12.4 and installed it using the supplied win installe on D: drive, in my thinking there ...
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small sda2 partition between root and swap
I have been trying for a while to figure out the partition scheme on my desktop that was automatically installed by Ubuntu when I installed. I let Ubuntu create the partitions as it saw fit on my ...
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Install Ubuntu on a partitioned system
I'm trying to install Ubuntu along with my existing Windows 8 OS (the computer came with Windows 7 so I'm supposed to have the old BIOS).
The problem is that when I tried installing Ubuntu from a USB ...
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Shrink Root partition and allocate free space to Home partition
While Installing Ubuntu I did the partition and allocate Disk space like that
4 GB for Home
1 GB for linux-swap
95 GB for root
But sooner I realilized that my /Home partition is almoast occupied ...
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Remove osx partition
I triple boot OSx, Windows 8, and Ubuntu on an Imac. I rarely use the OSx and only boot into Windows to play some video games on occasion. my question is what is the process for removing OSx and ...
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Is it normal that Ubuntu takes more than 2 hours in the partition process?
I have an Envy14 and I decided to install ubuntu 12.10. With the instalation manager I configured the partitions that will work as root, /home and swap. But it has been almost two and a half hours and ...
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Install Kernel to Other Partition
I have two Linux partitions, each running Ubuntu 12.04. One I was using as a legitimate partition for all my real computing. The other I was using as a honeycomb and a fallback partition. However, ...
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Can't resize main partition in Xubuntu
I did a clean install of Xubuntu that takes up the entire HDD.
Now I want to install BackTrack 5 on another partition.
I have tried Gparted both in Xubuntu and running Gparted live booting from a ...
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Removing Windows [duplicate]
I've been running Precise and XP in a dual-boot on my laptop for several months now. I'd like to pull the plug on XP and reclaim that wasted NTFS space. What's the easiest way to do that?
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Is there a way to see what content is on which partition?
After trying out Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu by working in them for a few
weeks, I have now decided on which distribution to use. Now I want to delete the partitions that holds the versions that I no ...
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How to remove 10.04 and install 12.10 in its place?
I have an AMD 64, 3.2Ghz, machine with Ubuntu 10.04 on it. 8Gb Ram, 1Tb sata HD, No internet access for any Ubuntu machines, or Windows machines for that matter. I've been running OS for almost 2 ...
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Differentiating between the windows and ubuntu drive space [duplicate]
I am installing ubuntu for the first time. I followed the instructions online and created a usb disk for the install on my Acer Aspire One netbook. My netbook came with windows preloaded and I am wary ...
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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 ...
