How would I partition my main disk?  256 GB — 109 GB free (57.5% full)  Because when I am running my OS (Ubuntu) It is mounted, but to partition it I need to unmount it.
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Previously, I have installed Windows 7 on my 320 GB laptop with three partitions 173, 84 and 63 GB each. The 63 GB partition was where the Windows was installed. The rest were for file containers.  Now I changed my OS to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I installed Ubuntu by replacing the entire Windows 7 on the 63 GB partition. The rest of the partitions remain as an NTFS Windows partition and I can still access them both (the 173 and 84 GB partitions).  Now I want to change the two partitions of Windows into an Ubuntu format partitions plus most importantly, I want to extend the 63 GB partition to more than a 100 GB because at the moment I am running out of disk space. Whenever I try to install any application, especially using wine, it always complains for a shortage of disk space.  How do I do the extending activity before I entirely format my laptop again and lose all the important files on my partitions?
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I would like to know how many Primary and Extended Partitions I can create on a x86_64 PC with Linux running on it?     Update  : If there is a limit to the number of partitions, why is that the limit?
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We will be running CentOS 7 on our new server. We have 6 x 300GB drives in raid6 internal to the server. (Storage is largely external in the form of a 40TB raid box.) The internal volume comes to about 1.3TB if formatted as a single volume. Our sysadmin thinks it is a really bad idea to install the OS on one big 1.3TB partition.  I am a biologist. We constantly install new software to run and test, most of which lands in /usr/local. However, because we have about 12 non-computer savvy biologists using the system, we also collect a lot cruft in /home as well. Our last server had a 200GB partition for /, and after 2.5 years it was 90% full. I don't want that to happen again, but I also don't want to go against expert advice!  How can we best use the 1.3TB available to make sure that space is available when and where it's needed but not create a maintenance nightmare for the sysadmin??
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How will Ubuntu automatically allocate the disk partition sizes when we select Erase disk and install Ubuntu during installation?    Can the settings for automatic space allocation be changed?
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I installed Ubuntu with Windows. Before installing, I shrunk the space for Ubuntu. Now I have 3.7GB free in my Ubuntu home.That's not enough for me.  So I shrunk my NTFS partition, it's now unalocated. Then I selected ext4 (Ubuntu home) to resize.   But it is 4GB and GParted not allowed to resize more than 4GB. But my 1GB is unallocated.
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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 have a 500 GB HDD in my laptop, but when I add up the partitions, they take up 465GB, and there are no unallocated spaces anywhere. Where did that 35GB go?  This is what my HDD looks like in the Windows partition manager:    As you can see, the space used is 0.6 + 0.3 + 409.19 + 37.25 + 2.79 + 15.53 = 465.66GB. On the left, Windows does indeed report the size of the drive as being 465 GB, but I know for a fact that this is a 500GB HDD, unless Newegg, Ebay and Amazon all made mistakes. Can someone please help me get back the 35GB I'm entitled to?   Note: I do know that the HDD has 7 partitions, even if only 6 are shown. The one that you can't see is Microsoft Reserved, and is very small, so that's not what is missing.
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What is the difference between "extended" partitions and "logical" partitions on my hard disk? What's the need for each? I am using Linux
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I have just got a new laptop, It is running Windows 7 Home Premium.  I have shrunk the windows partition to give me some empty space and now I want to install ubuntu.  From Windows my partitions look like:   So now in the ubuntu live cd If I hit install and go manual the partitioner looks like   So I thought I could just select the empty space and be away laughing, but when I hit it I get
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I started installing Ubuntu by watching a video tutorial about doing a disk partition installation, for that, inside Windows' 7 own disk partitioning tool. After a defrag I cut 100GB that I pretended to use on my Ubuntu installation for a little try out, now, while installing, I never really chose where I wanted Ubuntu to be installed, so I guess it just made a partition by itself of the minimum that the installation tells you it needs.  How can I now give the other 92 GB I had left apart only for that task?  Here's what my partitions look like now.     Here's a df:    And here's the GParted tool un ubuntu:
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How can I merge an unallocated partition with an extended partition ? I'm having trouble moving this unallocated space to the Linux portion. Here is my partition space:  (source: )
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I have 3 partitions on my computer.  +-----------+-------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Device   |  Type |   Size   |  Used   |                                                 Comments                                                 | +-----------+-------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | /dev/sda1 | ntfs  | 104MB    | 35MB    | This is Windows loader                                                                                   | | /dev/sda2 | ntfs  | 144598MB | 64536MB | Here I want to install UBUNTU                                                                            | | /dev/sda3 | ntfs  | 105353MB | 20227MB | This my backup partition. I don't want to delete anything from here, I have all my necessary information | +-----------+-------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+   The problem is when I select "Device for boot loader installation" /dev/sda2.  I get:  No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu.   How can I resolve this?
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I'm a new Linux user and a Windows convert. I tried Ubuntu (Dapper Drake) a few years ago and liked it quite a bit, and I'm in the process of installing Xubuntu 13.10 along side Windows7 on my brand new SSD! At this point, Windows is still being installed because I need it to be, but Linux is getting installed because I want to use it! I've done quite a bit of research and I've toyed around with Linux before, but I'm still a newbie and I have a few questions concerning partitions and program installations..  My new SSD isn't huge (120GB Samsung 840 EVO), and I'll be using my old 800GB HDD as a secondary drive. The thing is, I plan on using Linux as much as possible; only switching over to Windows7 when I absolutely need to. Because of this, I'll be doing a 50:50 split of my SSD for each OS (60GB for Linux, 60GB for Windows). I'm also planning on splitting my old, 800GB HDD into 3 partitions: some space for extra linux programs, some space for extra windows programs, and then a shared NTFS partition for all of my data (music, videos, documents, etc.).  So to sum up my space situation:   ~60gb SSD + 200gb HDD for Linux..  ~60gb SSD + 200gb HDD for Windows.. ~400gb shared NTFS..   This leads me to my questions.. While I have a fairly good idea of how my Windows setup will work (60gb C: drive, 200gb D: drive, etc.), the Unix/Linux directory structure is still very new to me and is making this process a little bit confusing. I know that it's possible (and common) to partition your "/" directory and "home" directory separately, and - as I understand it - the "/" partition is meant to contain system specific programs and data, while the "home" partition contains the programs and data of the various users.  However, I've also heard that most (if not all) of the programs that you install from repositories using APT are installed into the "/" directory. As someone who works with music/art programs and plays games (which can take up a LOT of space), this leads me to believe that I'll need a large "/" partition!  I've also read (from here: ) that the "home" directory is "the place where all the user-specific files, your data in other words, are stored. It is roughly equivalent to the “My Documents” folder on a MS Windows desktop". But, as I mentioned above, I intend to keep all of my non-OS-specific data (music, documents, videos, etc.) on my ~400gb shared partition, anyway. This really leads me to believe that I don't need a big home partition at all and that I should focus on partitioning as much space as possible for "/". And still, I've heard other people claim that you only need around 10gb of space for your root partition!?   Edit: Also, I just found out that programs like Steam and Wine take up space inside the "home" directory.  So, what should I do? I basically have 60gb SSD and 200gb HDD space for holding nothing but Linux programs. All of my data will be going onto my 400gb shared NTFS partition, so is it even worth making separate partitions for "/" and "home"? If I install both root and home on my 60gb SSD, how can I also use the extra 200gb of HDD space for more Linux programs? Can I expand root across multiple drives somehow, or maybe have a symlink or something that connects the two drives together?  As I said before, I'm still a major Linux newbie, so there may be something that I've completely misunderstood or overlooked. As someone who does a lot of art/music creation and gaming on my PC, I tend to use up a lot of program space quite quickly, especially since games and music libraries just keep getting bigger and bigger every year! Thanks for the help, I'm looking forward to learning more about Linux! :]
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I have an SSD with 64 GB and a 6 GB/s 1 Terabyte hard drive. I want to use the SSD only as a boot device and maybe for swap storage. On the 1 Terabyte hard drive, I want to have the main file system. As in Windows, I liked to have at least 2-3 Partitions example for music games programs and so on. Which partition layout do you recommend to me?
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The disk that contains Ubuntu on my computer is 115GB in size.  When the disk was 114.7GBfull.  I started deleting some files here and there to free up around 5GB.  But I noticed the disk was 114GB filled again. I thought it was some cache or swap thingy so didn't give it much thought and went ahead and freed around 40GBby shifting some media files out of the disk.  I have a notification in an hour or so that the disk is full yet again!! 40GB!!! All gone!  So I debugged the problem down to the /var/log/syslog file which was initially definitely less than 20GB. I know this because /var folder was 17GB before I cleared the memory.  /var/log/syslog file is currently 55.9GB!  Could someone be so gracious to explain this anomaly? Is this a bug? Or am I affected with some malware or virus?
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I've been wondering this for a while, why is there free space at the end of a drive that was formatted to NTFS in windows?  You can only see the unallocated space in Linux. So why is it there? Does it serve a purpose?
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I am going to install Ubuntu to dual boot with Windows 8 soon, but one of my friends warned me that partitioning my hard drive will slow my computer down. I run on a 500GB HDD and 8GB of ram if that helps at all. Is that true if I do it?