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Ubuntu 10.10 manual disk partitioning guide

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The last partition, which will be a logical partition, will be for /home. For this tutorial, 15 GB has been assigned to this partition. 15 GB is too small for a partition that will be used for /home, but this is an example. Since this is not an LVM-based partitioning scheme, be very generous with home. If this were a permanent installation that I intend to use, and given the available disk space, I could easily allocate 50 GB to 150 GB to /home. For the Mount point, select /home and click OK.

A little note about logical partitions: When you opt to create a logical partition, something else takes place that a graphical installer does not reveal: An extended partition is first created, then the logical partition is created under the extended partition. By creating an extended partition, it is now possible to create a virtually unlimited number of logical partitions. It is highly unlikely that you will ever need to create more than a few (2 to 4) logical partitions, but just know that you can, if you need to.

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Create the /home partition

If you intend to create separate partitions for other file systems, you may continue. For this tutorial, this is the end. You will notice that there is still plenty of disk space left. That is by design. I intend to install another OS alongside this one. That is how to set up a hard drive for dual-booting. It makes it easier when you it comes time to install the second OS, especially if you are also going to create partitions manually. With the partitioning completed, click Install Now to continue with the rest of the installation.

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Complete disk partitioning

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Apkarp
Apkarp
12 years ago

Can you help me? My older brother installed Linux on my computer and created another partiton just for other data, like files, gtames, images and so on. And he left, not telling me how to swap partitions from the main one, with ubuntu system files to the other, memory one. I would be glad if you can reply, as I couldn’t find anything.
Apkarp

Apkarp
Apkarp
Reply to  finid
12 years ago

I don’t have contact with him right now, but I was watching what he was doing. First he started installing Ubuntu, and created a system partition, on which system was saved. There is a little place for files too, but it’s not much, then he added a swap partition and a partition only fro files, with no system on it (not sure how is it called though). I have only Ubuntu on my computer. Ah, and he said, that he is adding a partition, so if someday I would install windows, then files on this partition could be used from both linux and windows
Sorry for my english, I’m from Poland.

Apkarp
Apkarp
Reply to  finid
12 years ago

I have Ubuntu 11.04, but I use ubuntu classic skin (probably it doesn’t change anything, but in case of…)

/dev/sda1 33G 24G 7.6G 76% /
none 1.6G 680K 1.6G 1% /dev
none 1.6G 1.4M 1.6G 1% /dev/shm
none 1.6G 216K 1.6G 1% /var/run
none 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /var/lock
/home/adam/.Private 33G 24G 7.6G 76% /home/adam

This is what was shown when I entered “df -h”, but I’m kinda sure, that I have more memory there… But I am still learning very basics of Ubuntu, so probably I’m wrong.

Abhi
Abhi
12 years ago

My instalation gets stuck at “detecting file systems” ? please help me out. how to continue instalation after that.

Leon
Leon
13 years ago

I have one physical and one logical for my WinXP. When I try to install Ubuntu 10.10, I cannot create more than 2 partitions. May I know how to do it? (creating 3 primary and 1 logical as shown in this example)

I tried to partition in my WinXP first, but I found out now, I can only create logical partition in WinXP.

Please advise. Thanks

Raff
Raff
13 years ago

Hey, I’ve installed Ubuntu 10.10 with no swap, and now I want the system to use a swap memory. With GParted I created the swap space and formated it for doing that, and now this memory is not in use. How do I make Ubuntu see and use this swap memory? Thanks in advance!

pb
pb
13 years ago

Hey, I am wondering how I get past the ‘Detecting File Systems… 0%’ stage?

carolinason
carolinason
13 years ago

agreed! no ext4 for /boot, this is a case where journaling doesn’t apply. ext2 is sufficient and faster.

carolinason
carolinason
Reply to  carolinason
13 years ago

and further i can’t see anyone needing 20GB for /, ever! unless they are using /opt for extra programs. 8GB should be a super dooper liberal amount even for the most “load every program from the repository and never clean apt” kinda user.

me
me
13 years ago

You love troubles. Or is there other reason why you formated /boot with ext4 fs? ext2 is far better option for /boot partition…

me
me
Reply to  finid
13 years ago

Yes, they love troubles and they use GRUB2… 😉

mario
13 years ago

Another note: the Ubuntu desktop installer is pretty lo-fi. But you can use encrypted partitions with it anyway. Just prepare your partitions with fdisk, set it up as LUKS, pre-mount the crypted partitions, and start the installer afterwards. It will pick those settings up. However, it requires some post-processing still (chroot to target partition, adapt fstab and crypttab, and install ‘cryptsetup’ package to have boot image updated).

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