I need to reinstall 18.04 (due to ongoing problems) and was wondering as to the best way to partition. I have a 1TB HD. I want a separate /home directory so I was wondering what's the best way to go about it to allow enough space for /boot, /, etc.? Right now my /home directory is 173.8 GB. Can I let Ubuntu take care of the other sizes when I get to the "Something Else" screen?  EDIT:  I don't believe the question is a copy as I would have skipped that answer in a search as it also deals with Windoze.
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This is not a question on  or  but is a question on access rights and how not to let them bite you in the lower abdomen...  ;-) This question will not help you how to make partitions on your disk, but will tell you what to do in , depending on your personal use case, so choose one of the following:      Note: The above questions can also be used with multiple disks, but the examples in the answers are given for one disk.
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I'm fighting the 'too small /boot partition' problem, and it looks like I'm going to have to either re-partition or install a larger drive (AND re-partition?). I keep seeing warnings that I should be sure to "back up important files," but excuse my ignorance -- what are "important files"? Incidentally, I have about $200 worth of Ubuntu books that don't explain this, or even what to back up when you back up. Sigh.  Specifically:   Back up the /home directory. However, without using sudo, this fails to backup about five files (for example, a 'lock' file). Am I ok, or do I need to use sudo? I suspect I should back up /etc. With sudo? Where are the files for things like games and apps? Do I need to back them up? If I'm doing a "clean install," is there any point to backing up the whole frickin' drive? If I'm going to repartition /boot, what should I back up before I do that? If I back up the drive, repartition, and then restore the backup, will it "restore" the old /boot partition?   Inquiring minds are flummoxed.
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I'm trying to install Ubuntu 18.10 on a new not partitioned HDD (using a VMWare machine). I try with manual partitioning to create the EFI System Partition but there is no EFI System Partition option (or other option containing the EFI word). I tried with 100M, 300M, 500M, 512M sizes but no luck. What's the solution for this?  PS: the similar question related to Ubuntu 15.10 doesn't help
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I'm going to install Linux on Lenovo B5400, which contains:   500GB Hybrid SSHD with a 8 GB SSD and 500 GB HDD   Designing partitions for my 2 Linux distros was quite easy before, when I had only HDD. I always had:   10GB for Linux distro (mounted as "/") 10GB for another distro (again "/"; for another distro; for testing purposes or to assure continuity when switching distros) 2GB for swap (used for both distros; no need to separate) 300GB+ for "/home" (used for both distros; different usernames eliminates possible conflicts)   It's simple, isn't it? I would like to keep this approach, but I know that SSD has its own specificity - it prefers to be read, continuous writing may affect its life span. I don't want to kill SSD in a year, so I would like to move some system partitions to HDD in order to protect SSD. As far as I know /tmp is one of often read&amp;written locations. How much space it needs? What else should be placed on HDD?  Or: how to design partitions to achieve exactly the same effect and to keep SSD as safe as possible?  I'd be grateful for your help.
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What is the best filesystem to use cross-platform (Linux, Windows, OS X) which supports disk sizes of at least 2TB and file sizes >4GB?  I'm planning to use it on a USB drive on different computers.  Are there any filesystems that can be used on all the named OSes without installing additional drivers?
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According to  I just expand my sda4 to include unallocated space, my question is after create 2 new partitions sda7, sda8, do I need to move the swap partition to the most right of the disk? (I really don't know this, I saw  which moving the swap partition to the right side)  Thanks.
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My /usr folder needs to get moved to a new partition. How can I do this without erasing the contents?  Can this be done while Ubuntu is running, or do I need to use the LiveCD for this?
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I've installed Ubuntu 13.10 and formatted my whole HDD ,and i chose to encrypt the disk and it automatically chose the LVM option (and put it as a logical partition) now after Ubuntu installed i tried to repartition the disk thru Live CD put GPartition gave me it's an encrypted partition and it can't be resized , i want to put the system's files and the home folder on partition and my private files on another one  Any help please ?
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I created an ext4 partition to back-up my files to, and partitioned it for 102GB in Gparted using a live USB. After I booted into Ubuntu, I opened Disk Utility, and it said that the partition was actually 108GB. Confused, I opened the mounted partition in Nautilus, and it said the partition was only 98GB.  Which is correct? Did I partition it wrong?
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How do I mount a partition with UFS filesystem (FreeNAS) in Ubuntu 11.10?  I'm a total Ubuntu newbie and just switched from FreeNAS.  There should be ll the info I need I guess, but if anyone would help me get going i'll by glad =)
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Why don't I have this option?    here's my disk layout  sudo fdisk -l  Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders, total 1250263728 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x5b53cc54     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *        2048      409599      203776    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2          409600  1153767021   576678711    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3      1216962560  1250050047    16543744    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4      1250050048  1250261679      105816    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)  Disk /dev/sdb: 4005 MB, 4005527552 bytes 32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3880 cylinders, total 7823296 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x20d8782d     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sdb1   *          63     7822079     3911008+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
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I have a Laptop with 1TB hard disk space. I can allocate 100GB for Ubuntu. Currently there is only Windows 7 installed. I am new to Ubuntu &amp; am confused by terms like mount point, root partition, swap partition, etc. The doc over  gives some details, but I dont know what they mean. For installing Ubuntu I have shrunk 100GB from a drive &amp; now that space is unallocated. So what should I do now? In how many partitions should I divide that space &amp; what conventions should be followed. Should I do this in the Ubuntu installer or should I do all this before installing Ubuntu? Please I dont understand the terminologies used on that doc so please tell me in simple language. Thank You.
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I installed Ubuntu 14.04 recently. During the installation I did not create a separate partition for my home folder. I also accidentally encrypted my home folder. When i did    sudo df   I got the result as  Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root  455G  181G  251G  42% / ....   Why does this have a funny name instead of a normal '/dev/sdx'?  Please explain to me what this is?
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My understanding of disc partitioning has always been that you partition a disc to install multiple operating systems so you can boot from multiple operating systems on a single disc. However I'm reading a ubuntu server book and it talks about partitioning the /home directory of a ubuntu installation.      "The /home directory is a popular partitioning candidate among both administrators and desktop users alike because it holds all of the personal files for user accounts on that machine. If you maintain /home as a separate partition, you can install new versions of a distribution or even different distributions altogether without wiping out any user settings."   I don't see how and why anyone would partition the home directory or any other directory for that matter in the file system of a ubuntu installation.
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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 have three partitions on my drive, arranged something like the following:   ___________ | 1 |  2 | 3| -------------   I wish to merge partitions 1 and 3.  Is there a way to do this, or do I have to manually "slide" partition 2 over to partition 3, and then merge the newly open space where partition 2 used to be?  Note: I do not have the space to copy partition 2 to partition 3 (2 is 200GB and 3 is 65GB).
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I have CentOS 5.5 installed, I have no un-partitioned space and the only ext3 partition I have is huge with lots of free space.  Can I change that partition size in order to allocate another one? I want to create new partitions in order to install another distribution there (Ubuntu).  I tried to do it through the volume administration tool in CentOS, but when I edit the partition size and confirm, it says that it is mounted in / and it needs to be un-mounted before re-sizing, which of course fails.  Any suggestion?