Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as 'partitions'
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Installing Ubuntu on a GPT HDD
I have changed my system to boot from UEFI instead of BIOS and have installed Windows 7 on my internal SSD which has GPT partition type.
I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04 on my external HDD. My ...
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Can I use a 3TB hdd as a boot drive?
I need a new HDD and plan on getting a 3TB one to fit all my stuff, ubuntu 12.04 install included.
So far I only have a 5yr old Asus p5qse but sooner rather than later I should have a new system with ...
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Setting Up RAID During 13.04 Install
I am attempting to install Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop on a RAID, but I can't figure out how to do it. I have read that it can be done during the install, but no one cares to explain how it is done. I saw ...
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Recover data after installing Ubuntu? [duplicate]
I decided to install Ubuntu and I choice to erase everything, I had already installed Windows 8 but broken and I wanted to erase it, but I thought that it would erase only the partition C where was ...
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secure boot not enabled
i have Q400A Asus laptop, which was running windows 8 when i bought,i installed win7 as the main OS for the system and win8 and Ubuntu 12.04 running on side.
I wanna try 13.04 so i download the ...
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How can I change partition table without data loss?
I hope that I name it that right. I have a root partition a home partition and swap. All I want is to add a partition for windows. BUT my drive is full so I want to shrink the logical home partition ...
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Unable to extend ubuntu partiton
I'm trying to expand my Ubuntu partition, I booted up my LiveCD, opened GParted and freed some space. But when I'm trying to expand the partition, it doesn't show any free space. It does this only for ...
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Grub rescue unknown file system error
I formatted my partition of Ubuntu 11.04 and created a new simple volume in Windows. But when I rebooted my laptop, I got an error :no such partition.
I tried nearly all commands suggested, but could ...
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How to automatically uninstall older kernels so that “The volume 'boot' has only … MB disk space” does not appear?
I work with Ubuntu 13.04 ("64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop image"). On updates/upgrades, I quite often get messages of the type The volume "boot" has only 11 MB disk space. I then uninstall older kernel ...
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How do I use Wubi in a “Frozen Disk” environment (aka computer labs)
I teach computer skills in a computer lab which uses a disk management system on to keep WinXP in a know state between reboots. I'd like to add a Wubi installation, but I keep getting the same error ...
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where should I install windows?
here is a picture of "GParted".
Where should I install windows (which partition?)?
It's SDA1? I'm not sure because there are 20gb in use and I don't know why. It's possible that's the older ...
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Need help with volumes
So it's my first time using ubuntu,(been using windows since 2001) and i have very limited knowledge about linux. I must admit everything works like a charm except one thing which bothers me a lot!. ...
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Unknown USB Flash Drive
Suddenly my Kingston DataTraveler 8GB is shown as unknown! The weird thing is that I can only "see" it through Disk Utility.
GParted or sudo fdisk -l or sudo fdisk -lu cannot see it.
I tried to ...
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I want to reformat my home partition from ext3 to ntfs
I have three partitions: one with Ubuntu 12.04, the other is a data partition (the largest of the three) and the last one has Windows 7.
First I installed Ubuntu, then I formatted the data partition ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 on a 60GB Kingston SSD ( partititions and TRIm )
Whats the difference between having / and /home on a same partition / and having them saparate partitions which is better ?
/ -> 24GB
/home -> 34GB
swap -> 2GB
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/ -> 58GB
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Strange USB flash drive problem [closed]
I have a USB flash drive, but I cannot access it. Ubuntu does nothing when i plug it in, nothing appears (but the LED on the drive lights up). When I plug it into a Windows 8 machine, an icon appears, ...
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External HDD not recognized on any system
A few days ago, I pulled out the hard drive without safely ejecting it first. (I know, stupid) After trying to plug it into my Ubuntu system, the HDD doesn't get recognized. I opened up Gparted to ...
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Mounting a directory
I have a directory in the /dev dir called media/windows. I need to mount the /windows directory to a ntfs file system partition in /dev called sbd1. I have tried mount /dev/media/windows /dev/sdb1 and ...
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Increase root size, shrink /home size, on console
I have a Debian system which has been set up quite a long time ago with default partition sizes as suggested by the installer. Turns out that the root and /usr partitions are too small for my needs. ...
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How to resize a ext4 root partition at runtime?
How to increase the size of the root partition of a system a runtime? I have a partition that is not allocated after the root partition (which is in ext4), how can I add it to root without having to ...
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How to hide ext4 and dm-crypt partitions from a windows (7) install?
Environment:
I have a bunch of partitions across several drives.
A precise, a wheezy, an arch, a windows 7 -install and multiple partitions with stuff.
What? So how can I hide the linux-world ...
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(U)EFI > Ubuntu vs Windows 8 - problems with booting Windows
I have a problem with a screwed dual-boot of ubuntu 13.04 and windows 8 on a new DELL XPS 12 (EFI/grub2) System not loading windows8 at all,... here is a story:
I've got a new DELL XPS 12 System with ...
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Partitioning issues with easeUS how do i proceed
Ok I installed EaseUS to set up a partition for Ubuntu. My laptop automatically has 4 primary drives:
*:SYSTEM
C:
D: Recovery
*: HP_TOOLS
I have an HP laptop. I read online that HP_TOOLS is a back ...
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When installing Ubuntu from USB, it recognizes previous Windows 8 but I don't get the option to run alongside
When installing Ubuntu from USB, Ubuntu installer recognizes previous Windows 8 OS but I don't get the option to install alongside Windows 8. I only get the option to replace Windows 8 or "Something ...
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Installing Ubuntu over Windows 7, recovery partition
I'm currently attempting to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my Acer Aspire 4830T-6678 laptop.
The laptop came pre-loaded with Windows 7 Home Premium, and it contains a recovery partition that I don't ...
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Error: No root file system when installing dualboot
I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04 alongside a Windows7 system. I have shrunk my 280 GB Windows partition to 174GB. Now I have an unusable partition of 127423MB to install Ubuntu. But it seems it ...
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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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How to free up space in /boot when I have only one kernel installed?
Every since I upgraded from 12.10 to 13.04, Ubuntu's been complaining that /boot is full. Now, it's pulling a racket when I'm trying to install packages.
For starters, I've looked around for similar ...
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No /dev/sd for my hard drive?
I recently tried to install lubuntu on an external hard drive and it had an error(just my luck).
I thought everything was fine, so I went to gparted to reset the partitions for use with Windows. It ...
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Missing Operating System after removing Windows though partition (gparted)
My laptop is divided into three drives: C, D and E. Windows was installed in C and Ubuntu was in D. I format C and E by deleting and to NTFS using gparted. But when I restart, it tells me a "missing ...
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how to install windows after deleting a linux partition [closed]
So I used to have linux but I screwed my computer up in attempt to get windows. Now i don't have an operating System just gparted. I have one partition its 499 gb and Ntfs . Yet whenever I try to ...
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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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can't access windows partition after recovery using testdisk
help me plz . after installing ubuntu i lost my all windows vista partitions .now i recovered all partitions using testdisk and i can access all data in partition D,E but can't access data in ...
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A Specific Partitioning Project [closed]
Alright, this is more specific so I can understand if people won't know or don't want to help, but I'd like to get this done within the next couple days if possible. Here's the details. I have Windows ...
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How to unhide the recovery partition in ubuntu that is hidden in windows 7?
My recovery drive is hidden in windows 7, and it is not allowed to assign any drive letter to it from storage management of windows, but the partition is shown in storage management of windows as well ...
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dual boot automatically partition
I'm trying to install Ubuntu from liveusb 13.04 64bit in dual-boot with windows 8.
I have UEFI active.
I already disabled FastStartup of Windows 8.
No problem with Secureboot (then still active).
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View TOTAL Disk Space Taken by ALL Installed Packages
Is there a way to view a 'system size'? I want to know how large I should make partitions if I separate my /home from the / (root) partition, but I don't know how much space Ubuntu + every installed ...
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How do I mount my ntfs hard drive partition?
My computer's internal hard drive has an intermediate partition called 'Storage' which can be accessed from either Windows or Ubuntu. It is an NTFS partition but when I try to mount it in Ubuntu as ...
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How to expand the ext4 primary partition size in a VMware Player virtual disk?
I have a VMware Player virtual machine setup, running Ubuntu 10.04 as the a guest OS.
The VM was created on a 20GB virtual drive, with a single partition for working space. Finally I got to the point ...
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Mac Partioning problem
During Partioning "set up Ubuntu alongside mac" does not show and choosing something else makes it vv difficult
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How can I dual boot Ubuntu 13.04 with Windows 7 Home Premium? [duplicate]
I have a nice impression to Ubuntu before and I want to dual boot it with my Windows OS. (I'm a total newbie in this field :D )
I have downloaded the latest Universal USB Installer and the Ubuntu ...
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Want to take several partitions and create one big one in GParted
Basically, I have this mess of partitions and unallocated space on my hard drive, I'd like to take every one except for /dev/sda1 (Windows 7) and create one big partition I can re-install Ubuntu on. ...
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How to install Ubuntu Desktop 13.04 with mirror RAID?
I've now spent hours trying and failing to figure out how to install Ubuntu Desktop 13.04 on my new desktop while setting up RAID as part of the installation.
I tried following the following two ...
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Stuck partition on Mac.
After I used rEFIt to put Linux on my mac, it tried installing windows, but I stopped it. The partition doesn't show up in terminal or disk utility. It's like a 'ghost' partition and it shows up when ...
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Full disk encryption & boot partition from a CD
I would like to try enabling Full Disk Encryption under Ubuntu 13.04.
I would also like to put my boot partition on a burnt CD-R, rather than unencrypted on the HDD. A CD-R has a number of advantages ...
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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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'Unable to mount Filesystem' Error
Trying to extract data from a 'bricked' Western Digital MyBook Live 2tb drive.
I came across a forum that advised to use Ubuntu (booted from a CD) on my Macbook. Managed to download and create a ...
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Gparted can't create partition table
Here's what the problem is.
About a day or so ago I used Gparted live cd to create 3 NTFS primary partitions on my external 500 gig Goflex and one extended with 2 logical partitiones.
I had planned ...
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I need to increase swap space [duplicate]
I used the Windows installer to install Ubuntu. It did not ask me the size of swap. I am currently using Ubuntu and have only about 200 MB and my system crashes when I open too many applications.
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Keeping the same /home partition after a clean install
I currently have 2 partitions for my ubuntu installation: A / partition and a /home partition.
When Ubuntu 13.04 is released I plan to reinstall ubuntu while keeping the same home partition. Is it ...
