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Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as 'partitions'

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Low disk space warning I have 1.4 TB on /media! directory!

I frequently get low disk space warning while I have 1.4TB on /media directory. I assume I need to add this space to /home. How can I do it without loosing my already installed packages? Here is my ...
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Installing applications on a separate USB

Recently made the switch by installing Ubuntu on my Chromebook. Love this community site, it has already answered so many questions, thank you for that. I have a 16gb internal harddrive, which is ...
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Ubuntu partition: exited with non-zero exit status 32

I'm unable to boot my laptop since the partition that Ubuntu is installed on reports: exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda7, missing ...
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Separate EFI partitions per disk? [closed]

I am trying to dual boot Linux and Windows on a system with 2 different hard drives, drive C has Windows 10 installed and drive D Linux (Arch in my case). I'm now wondering whether I should have a ...
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Installing Ubuntu On a Separate HDD

I was wondering if I could install ubuntu on a 500GB HDD while there are already 2 other HDDs in RAID 0 with windows 8 installed. Any help is appreciated.
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Create separate primary partition to install linux

I tried GParted live to extend and create primary partition but it is taking a lot of time. When will the process get finished? Also, whenever I tried to dual boot Linux. windows partition is shown ...
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Dual booting Ubuntu and windows 10 on Baytrail /2 gb /32 gb eMMC device

I have a Baytrail netbook with 2gb Ram and 32 gb eMMC storage comes with windows 10 32 bit preloaded .But i want to have an Ubuntu based 64 bit distro along with the default OS . I can't completely ...
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Trouble with partition on a USB flash drive

Xubuntu 14.04.3, USB flash drive 4GB. After using the standard tool for writing flash drives in Linux Mint 17.2 MATE i've installed Xubuntu, but when I decided to format the flash drive i got this: ...
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How (else) can I clear space on `/boot` so `do-release-upgrade` will work?

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 installation that I'm trying to do-release-upgrade to 16.04. When I try, I get the error Not enough free disk space The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total ...
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Gparted won't let me resize an EXT4 partition

I'd like to make a partition (200GB) in order to dual-boot Ubuntu with Kali-Linux. Here is my harddrive /dev/nvme0n1 : I don't have a lot a experience to partition a drive, and I don't want to ...
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Mount NTFS partition after resize

I tried to shrink my main NTFS partition from 999GB down to 150GB using ntfsresize and parted. Now I can't mount my partition again. root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/windows Failed to ...
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How do I resize partitions when I don't have physical access to a remote server?

I have a: cloud instance remote server Virtual Machine ... of Ubuntu to which I don't have physical access and I need to resize mounted partitions like / that I cannot dismount! All the tutorials /...
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Switching Ubuntu Version on dual boot

I just found myself in times of trouble: I have a dual boot configuration (Ubuntu 18.10 and Windows 10) My Ubuntu 18.10 is, as someone told me, EOL (and dead, it won't boot again) so I need to ...
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Ubuntu can't detect Windows 10 disk

I installed Ubuntu 16.04 on another SSD of my laptop. I have Windows 10 on hd1 and Ubuntu on hd0. I wanted to dual boot using grub and I'm following a tutorial in order to add a Windows entry to the ...
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How do I find out if I have a separate boot partiton from the Live CD?

I am currently trying to rebuild my GRUB after reinstalling Windows 7 and this guide says I need to perform an extra step if I have separate boot partition. I tried to look it up but from what I ...
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Moved /home to separate partition, installed 64-bit Xubuntu, can't log in but everything looks fine

So after trying to install Steam on my old installation of Ubuntu, I realised that I had been using 32-bit Lubuntu on my 64-bit machine. So I decided to move my /home directory to a separate partition ...
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Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop on brand new computer, trying to recover old encrypted data

I installed Ubuntu onto a USB stick and encrypted all my data, however my laptop stopped working and I had to purchase a new one and my USB stick no longer boots into Linux. So I have a brand new ...
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Expand filesystem from command line - sda1-5 already in use

I have a headless Ubuntu server install inside a VM, running on Hyper-V using lvm. I have full access to the VM, but no access to the Hyper-V environment (so can't boot with a LiveCD). I need to ...
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Clearing accumulated dotfile clutter in $HOME

I have $HOME on a separate partition so I can do a fresh distro install without disturbing my user data. This has worked fine over multiple installs. However, over time I've noticed an accumulation ...
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Boot partition on separate drive?

Have tried searching but drawing a blank, end up with pages of how to dual boot with windows. I have a 250gb spinning disk alongside a 1.9TB PCIE Card SSD. Due to BIOS limitations I cannot boot from ...
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Out of disk space, no Gparted no update

I seem to have worked myself into a perpetual problem. My Ubuntu version is outdated, and even with some fixes, trying to install Gparted seems impossible (first couldn't find it, now it can but ...
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Changing the Partition Names of a Ubuntu Live USB Made with Mkusb

I've created a Live USB of Ubuntu 18.04.2, and used mkusb to do so that I would have more than 4GB of persistent storage. The process I followed is the same as this article. I'd like to rename the ...
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Ubuntu Installation on dual-Harddisk computer

I guess many might have asked this. i have a prob which i couldn't find answer for. My laptop has 256G SSD and 1 TB HDD. Windows boots from SSD. I installed Ubuntu within 30GB space in the HDD, with ...
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Ubuntu 12.4 and XP on Separate Drives, Dual Boot, How?

I have 2 different SATA drives in my PC, a 160GB and a 200GB. I'm unsure how to do this, and have a choice between them when I boot, any ideas? Is there a guide out there for this? I installed XP on ...
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Delete Mac partition and grow Ext4 partition

I have a 2015 non-retina Macbook pro with a dual boot Mac-Kubuntu 18.04. I installed initially Mac Mojave (APFS File system), then rEFInd from there and finally Kubuntu. This is how the layout looks ...
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I have a vbox extension virtual machine instead of vdi. How should I resize storage of vbox?

I'm trying to install Ubuntu on the virtual box using USB. My primary OS is also Ubuntu. When I'm booting, it's giving me this problem: screenshot So, I'm trying to find a way to resize the storage. ...
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Not able to format Pendrive [duplicate]

I have a pendrive with fat32 partition and have some data. Whenever I tried to format this pendrive, it didn't format. I've tried to format with gparted, and it shows an successful message. But ...
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Questions about Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Install / partition sizing on SSD / HDD system

Hi Everyone – I am planning to upgrade my dual boot Ubuntu 16.04LTS/Win 10 system to 18.04LTS /Win10 and would love some opinions. My main drive is a 1TB SSD and my data drives are 2 8TB HDD’s running ...
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GRUB screen freezes after installing Ubuntu dual boot with Windows

I recently bought a HP Spectre x360 laptop with Windows 10 on it. I manually created a partition for it using Windows. I then installed Ubuntu 18.04.02 by choosing the 'Install Ubuntu alongside ...
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Separate Data Partition

I have System with 128 GB SSD and 1 TB HDD.I have installed Ubuntu on SSD with /,/swap,/home partition. So What i want now is create a separate data partition on HDD and link some of the folders on /...
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Is there a lubuntu 18.10 partitioning tool like "disks"? I don't find it in the menu

I have installed gparted, which shows only one of two hds. I don't know whether it has got to do with gparted or with my system. Where is the standard "disks" program in 18.10? Or is it named ...
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Help me install Ubuntu 18.04 (No root file system is defined error):

I want to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 10. I use Legacy BIOS partitioning and my disk partitions are MBR. /sda1 NTFS Primary Boot Windows 10 104 GB total 33 GB used 71 GB free /sda2 NTFS ...
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One last thing before I install

I'm trying to have Ubuntu and Windows 7 dualboot. I couldn't shrink the partitions while in Windows, nor could I do it in GParted. I didn't get the option to install Ubuntu alongside Windows, so I ...
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Can't install Ubuntu 18 because sda partitions not visible by installer

Have been struggling for a while with this and had tried different troubleshootings from this forum currently I'm as in the very beginning. While installing ubuntu from usb it doesn't give the options ...
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Cannot boot my Windows after installing Ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]

I can't boot my Windows. Windows boot option is not listed in GRUB boot list. Boot-repair gave me this info summary.
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Installation drive, /dev/sda or /dev/sdd?

While installing Ubuntu, I have followed the tutorial perfectly up until I begin partitioning. From here, the space I freed up appears to be on sdd drive, and I do not have an sda drive at all. ...
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An anonymous "free space" is showing in the disks window

I want to have only 2 partitions: the 238GB as shown in the picture, and the 262GB, But there is an anonymous "Free space 2.1MB" is coming from somewhere I don't know. I don't know how to merge it ...
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Is it possible to install full Ubuntu on a 32 GB flashdrive from the ISO on a bootable drive?

I want to be able to run the full Ubuntu desktop from a 32GB Strontium flashdrive but I can't seem to make the proper partitions. These are the steps I took: I made a bootable drive from a 16GB drive ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 alongside 16.04 on same partition

I have a hybrid disk drive with two partitions on it - one for windows and other for Ubuntu. I had Ubuntu 16.04 before, but since then it won't boot anymore(also won't upgrade to newer version), so I ...
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Windows 10 won't boot from GRUB

This is an attempted, and failed, dual boot of Ubuntu and Windows 10. Specs: Alienware Area-51, OS: Ubuntu 18.04.2, Inaccessible OS: Windows 10 Here's some information from Boot Repair Boot ...
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Unable to dual boot windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 on separate drives

I'm trying to install Ubuntu on my main SSD and windows on my secondary hard drive for games. After a lot of hassle with trying to preserve my original ubuntu I bend the knee to installing Ubuntu ...
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How to format HD 1TB in more than three gpt partitions? [duplicate]

How to format HD 1TB in more than three gpt partitions without any operarations system. At least 7 partitions in gpt There is a tutorial to do gpt partitions? 1 for Windows 10 and the others that are ...
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Installing Ubuntu with HD + SSD

I got an Acer Aspire 5 with 8 GB RAM and 1 TB hard disk drive, and I need some advice of how to part my memory, today running Fedora and Windows on dual boot. I bought a 250 GB Samsung EVO 970 ...
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main partition marked as full but / directory only half the size

I am new to Linux so please forgive me the question if it's 'easy'. I recently installed Linux next to Windows 10 on my SSD (I have a separate Partition for this which is 29GB). Then I moved my /home ...
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USB Partition Errors

I have a USB key with 2 partitions on it that I'm trying to use on an Ubuntu 16.04 desktop. When I plug it in, one of the partitions mounts fine, the other doesn't appear. I checked dmesg: [ 461....
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Need help with partitions after dual booting ubuntu to existing windows 10 install

I was given an older Compaq Presario CQ60 Laptop with Windows 10 on it and I setup a dual boot with Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS. I'm a linux beginner and was way over my head with the install but everything ...
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Unable to read the contents of this file system, required for ntfs file system support: ntfsprogs / ntfs-3g, gparted

In my brother's single boot Ubuntu PC, I was trying to resize /dev/sda5 partition with gparted, which is in ntfs format, but found a warning, that showing— Unable to read the contents of this file ...
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Fix /dev/sdb after using dd with no device inserted

I was creating a bootable usb with dd using this command, which I've used many times before on my system without issue. This time, however, I forgot to plug in the usb so it tried to write to a device ...
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GNOME Disks and compress images

How can I create compressed images with GNOME Disks? If it is not possible, what do you suggest instead?
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Booting Issue in Ubuntu 18.04 external hard drive set up

I have installed Ubuntu 18.04.2 on an external hard drive. The details of the hard drive are: Storage: 500 GB Type: SSD Make: SanDisk The installation happened seamlessly, but after I remove the live ...

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