As you can see in my previous post (click ), I'm getting a new motherboard. However, I saw in WikiHow (click ) that I have to reinstall every operating system in my drives. However, (also because I am a distro hopper sometimes) I'm fed of backing up my entire /home folder and copying it to the new installation.  I have seen somewhere that if you don't want to wipe the entire Linux partition and lose data, you can create a partition during installation &amp; mount it in the /home mount point. I have seen it multiple times, and now (since I want to change from Xubuntu to Ubuntu) I regret not doing that.  I can copy my files on to an external hard drive, but my problem is creating the partition &amp; the mount point. Will it be recognized by the system and /etc/fstab?
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I have a wonderful running Maverick Meerkat install going on right now. I want to move my /home to another partition as per many suggestions.   How can I go about doing this without reinstalling the entire Ubuntu system? Can I simply create the partition with gparted and then change the mount point of /home in fstab to reflect it or is it a bit more difficult?
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If I want to make a backup of my entire OS (including but not just my home directory), how do I go about this?    Is it as simple as backing up everything in / and then when if I suffer a crash, just copying the files back over? Will this cover grub, and how do I actually do this when the system is inoperable?
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This question has been answered before in many places but I just need some confirmation with my specific setup. I have Linux Mint installed and I just want a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 install to completely replace Mint. It's dual booted with Windows 7 and I want that to remain completely in tact.  Anyway, I'm currently running the Live CD installer. I've said I want to specify my own partitions and I'm at the following screen:     The list at the bottom expanded:     I confused by all the different partitions. Seems like I should just check the box beside sda5. But what about sda6? Do I just leave that alone?  Also just for confirmation, is the "right" way to replace Mint, or should I be deleting it first?
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I had Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installed on my Laptop. After a while I had some troubles starting it up. I decided to reinstall Ubuntu.  I had 3 ntfs partitions, 2 ext3 partitions the mount point for the first was / and for the second was ./local and a swap partition. During the reinstallation I chose the option: "erase Ubuntu 14.04 and reinstall".  During the reinstallation the power cut off. After it worked again I turned my laptop on to try to restart the installation process. I couldn't find any options other than:   Erase disk and install Ubuntu Something else   When I chose Something else I couldn't see my partitions. Instead I found this:  Device                         Type     Mount point     Format?     Size      Used     System     /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root  /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root   ext4                                 631381 MB unknown  Linux device-mapper (linear)(631.4 GB) /dev/mapper/ubuntu-vg-swap_1  /dev/mapper/ubuntu-vg-swap_1  swap                                 8493 MB   unknown /dev/sda  /dev/sda1                     ext2                                 254 MB    27 MB  /dev/sda5                                                          639877 MB unknown   At the Testdisk phase I have this:
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This is not a question about how to create a home partition, just as a caveat. :)  What are the pros and cons to having a separate home partition? How do I know if having one is right for me? Will it increase or decrease speed of file retrieval? Are there any risks?
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How do you make HDDs and partitions mount at startup on Ubuntu?  I always keep my media and data files on separate partitions - one 2tb HDD and a 400 odd gig partition.  I have been trying to swap the default folder location for the home directory to my other drives.  It works when I change the /home/user_name/.config/user-dirs.dirs file to the directories I want, but only until I reboot the system. I am only assuming that the drives not mounting is the problem with it, but it would be helpful either way.  If any one knows another reason for why the directories change back to default each time that would be good also.
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While installing Ubuntu in VirtualBox, the installer indicated it was going to erase all existing data on the disk. Does this only refer to the area I have allocated during setup or my entire hard drive. It seems obvious but it's quite a mistake to make since I'm not sure. Help.
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Okay, so here's the story.  I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04.  I currently have a 2TB drive in my computer where Windows 7 boots from, and a secondary 500GB drive that also has a bootable installation of Windows 7, because the version on the 2TB is a clone of what was on the 500.. I do not need any information on the 500 as I already have it moved over to the 2TB.  What I want is to completely reformat the 500 so that it has about 300GB for NTFS and the rest for Ubuntu.  However, I can't seem to find a straightfoward way to do that in the Ubuntu installer.  If I click on "Install Ubuntu alongside them," it does not give me the option to select my 500GB drive, only my 2TB.  I do NOT want any linux partitions on my 2TB drive.  I do not want to click, "Erase disc and install Ubuntu" for obvious reasons.  Finally, clicking "something else" brings up a menu that is quite confusing.  I can kind of figure out how to use it, but it's not as straightfoward as I'd like..  Further, I know that Ubuntu requires a SWAP partition, but I do not know how much, or even how, to allocate that with the stupid dropdown menus it gives me.  So, to get to the point..  What is the easiest, safest way to do what I want to do?  That is, allocate approximately 200G for Ubuntu on my 500G drive, and be able to choose between Windows 7 on my 2TB drive and Ubuntu at startup - all, of coarse, without touching the 2TB drive at all.  Thanks!
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I'm getting a PC with Windows and I want to dual boot using Ubuntu as my primary OS.  I want to create a Home partition to store all my files and hopefully be able to access them on Windows 7 without having to manually mount the partition or anything.  I want to know what kind of partition should I create and if I can share my Home partition to simplify matters.  Thanks
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What's the difference between installing Linux alongside Windows and installing it on a separate partition?  I already have data on Windows and other partitions that I don't want to lose.
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I want to reinstall Ubuntu keeping my data intact. I have 160 GB hardrive (sata or pata I don't know but it's slim and made in China) with a 40 GB ext3 partition, a 4GB swap memory and 3 other partition with a FAT32 file system. I have around 4GB space on my drive where Linux is installed.  I'd like to keep the data intact, especially the Downloads folder, desktop, and /var/www; And I no longer have access to any other machines or external storage devices.
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I'm sure this has been answered somewhere on here before (I even found kinda a guide , but seemed to be a bit spotty and incomplete) but I was wondering if someone could assist me or at least point me in the right direction to get what I'm trying done accomplished.  Basically I installed Ubuntu 14.04 (via "Guided - use the entire disk and setup LVM") on a 20GB disk. I then physically added a clean 80GB disk to the machine, which it detects as 'sdb'.  Basically my question is, I want to be able to add/combine the allocated amount of space from the new disk (80GB) to my machine so that instead of showing two drives (20GB and 80GB), it simply shows one drive (100GB). I'm not worried about RAID or any other special add-ons.  I'm somewhat new to Linux, but understand that I need to use LVM to accomplish this.  If there is anyone who can help me out or link me to a helpful guide/tutorial, it would be very much appreciated! Not sure if this is needed either, but here is my 'fdisk -l' and '/etc/fstab' output:  fdisk output (shortened):  Disk /dev/sda: 21.5 GB, 21474836480 bytes    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1    *       2048      499711      248832   83  Linux /dev/sda2          501758    41940991    20719617    5  Extended /dev/sda5          501760    41940991    20719616   8e  Linux LVM  Disk /dev/sdb: 85.9 GB, 85899345920 bytes Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table  Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root: 20.4 GB, 20392706048 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root doesn't contain a valid partition table  Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1: 801 MB, 801112064 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 doesn't contain a valid partition table   /etc/fstab (shortened):  # &lt;file system&gt; &lt;mount point&gt;   &lt;type&gt;  &lt;options&gt;       &lt;dump&gt;  &lt;pass&gt; /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1 # /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation UUID=26710773-7a64-4f34-a34e-0057cb1739d7 /boot           ext2    defaults        0       2 /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 none            swap    sw              0       0
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A fair while ago (~ 2004) I was told to always create a separate partition for the boot directory.  And since then I always have.  But after reading a few questions about partitioning questions, I'm curious.  Do I still need a /boot partition?  Note:  If helpful, I'm dual booting (Win XP or 7) &amp; Ubuntu 10.04.  I also have one partition (using ext2/3) which I use to share files between the two operating systems.
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I've been programming for about a year and I'm very new to Ubuntu. I'm currently working on a project with a mentor who suggested partitioning part of my drive with a fresh Ubuntu install. I've never done anything like this and most of the guides I've seen are for dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows/MacOS.  I'm currently running Ubuntu 16.04 on my laptop. I was wondering If I could keep my current setup and also partition part of my drive with a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04?
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Possible Duplicate:          I'm planning to install Ubuntu 10.04 with Windows 7. (I'm new to Linux, have to use at work so I'm planning to install it at home to learn more)  I plan to use a partition to my Windows system files (C:), another for my personal files that already exists (D:) and a new one for Linux.  I want to have a partition for my personal files that works across these systems - so, if I boot with Windows or Linux, there are the same "Videos", "Pictures", "Projects" folders.  Is it possible? Is there a hd filesystem capable of having writes from both systems without too much risk of corrupting or something? (Can't be FAT32, I need to store >4gb files). I've read some  of corruption, and would like to know from a other people's experiences some POV about all the risks involved in such scenario.
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I use ubuntu to deal with daily job. Now I buy a new laptop, and I want to migrate my whole system(programs, packages, data, settings, etc) to the new machine.  I know I can copy my home folder to new machine and I will get (almost) all data and settings. But is there a safe way to copy the whole system? Or it's a bad idea?
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Presently in the install (USB stick) for 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04.1.  Want to have dual-boot capabilities between Windows 7 and Ubuntu.  Have partitioned hard drive with Windows System (sda1), Windows OS (sda2), Ubuntu (sda3 - with ext4 file system and a "/" mount point), swap (sda4) and need to know what file system to select for the remaining free space (storage) partition with a /home mount point?  I presume it to be either FAT32 or ext4, yet I need to be sure that it enables cross-sharing of documents/directories with both Windows 7 and Ubuntu operating systems.  Also, is FAT32 an NTFS type of system?  Thanks in advance.