I just moved to ubuntu. I have a 250GB SSD in which i installed the OS. I have my efi partition and my / partition in the SSD while installing. I want to add an extra HDD as my /home now. How do I do that? Also, I code using python and I need to install various python packages. How to install all of the in my HDD ???
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I have 2 HDD drives in my computer. At the moment second drive is mounted as /media/storage.  How can I move my user data from /home to /media/storage/home?  Can I just move the data over there and then simply symlink it back?
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I've already installed Ubuntu 12.04, but I did not make any separate partitions beside the one the operating system is installed on.  Now I want to make a new partition.  Is this possible?
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I am already using Windows 7. I want to install Ubuntu 13.04 along side Windows 7 in a partition that I already made in one of my hard drive but I am worried about losing the data on my drive. Is there any possibility of data loss?
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I just installed Ubuntu, a full install removing the prior OS. I was forced to remove  from my  because of the max four partitions already being there. I didn't lose anything, all backed up. However, now I am looking to create another partition and install Windows&nbsp;7 on it.   Do I also need some sort of boot loader that lets me choose which to boot?
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I am trying to install Ubuntu 11.10 alongside Windows XP.  When I am prompted where I want to install Ubuntu, the three options to select from are:   Install Ubuntu alongside Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Overwrite Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition with Ubuntu Something else   When I selection option 1, by default Ubuntu Installer selects the 1TB external hard drive that I have connected to the computer.  There appears to be an option to select another hard drive, however, I cannot use it to change to another drive.  In other words, the drop down list does not work.  What I want to be able to do is to install Ubuntu on another (internal) 320GB hard drive that I have purchased for this very reason.  My problem here is that I am not certain how to partition it for Ubuntu using option 3.  I know that I will require a / partition and a /boot partition, however, I am not sure how much to allocate to each.  Furthermore, there appears to be more file systems to select from.  Which one do I use for each partition I create?  Also, the intended target drive is currently formatted with NTFS.  Do I need to manually delete and re-create the partition to ext2 before I am able to install Ubuntu?  FYI - My current configuration is as follows:  /dev/sda   /dev/sda1   fat16    32MB   /dev/sda2   ntfs    160GB /dev/sdb   /dev/sdb1   ntfs    320GB /dev/sdc   /dev/sdc5   fat32  1000GB   Note that the /dev/sda1 is the partition reserved for EISA (whatever that is), /dev/sda2 is the partition that contains the Windows XP Home Edition, /dev/sdb1 is the new internal hard drive that I intend to install Ubuntu, and /dev/sdc5 is the external drive which is used as a backup drive only.  For some reason, Windows XP uses this external drive to store temporary/configuration files for software that is installed on /dev/sd2.  Any help/advice would be appreciated.
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I plan on installing Ubuntu 19.04 and give it 100 GB of my 256 GB SSD space and leave the rest for Windows as I would primarily be using Ubuntu.     A. Now, as I plan to install a lot of applications in Ubuntu, should I give more space to the / partition than the home partition? (Or maybe even drop the /home altogether?).    B. I have another 128 GB SD card for files like photos, audio and video files. Please suggest me the optimal partitioning for the use case.    C. Also, I have 8 GB of RAM so what should be the optimal swap partition size?    D. How would the distribution be if I choose "install Ubuntu alongside Windows" option?
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I have a 90GB SSD but 90GB soon gets filled up.  My users folder alone is 26GB.  To get round this I use Symlinks (read the  for more).    Is there any way to make a separate SSD and HDD work like a hybrid so that frequently accessed files are moved to the SSD automatically?  This would be a nice addition to Windows 8 but I'm not holding out my hopes.    I guess ReadyBoost is a bit like this but its more designed for USB sticks I think.  I did try installing Windows 7 with the SSD as a readyboost but didn't really notice any much improvement over just using the HDD.
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I want to install Ubuntu side by side on my Windows XP.But instead of placing it on HDD C: drive, i want to place it on a slave HDD (which would be drive F:).I already tested on a virtual machine in placing on a second HDD but it doesn't appear to work. How should i proceed?
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I dual boot Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 8.1.  All of Ubuntu lives on an SSD, and the core Windows stuff lives there too, in a separate partition.  The main User folders for Windows (Documents, Downloads, etc.) live on a separate hard drive.  I'm running out of space in Ubuntu. I'd like to move /opt and /usr/local to the hard drive.  All the Q&amp;A I've found about this, however, starts with the assumption that these folders are already mounted on a different partition, or that I can format the destination drive. Neither of these is true for me.  I don't remember exactly what I did when I set this computer up, but I do know the hard drive is accessible from Ubuntu (and is at /dev/sdb1, mounted at /media/steve/storage).  Is it possible to do what I'm asking?
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I purchased a PC six months ago for work related tasks. I do 95% of my work on Ubuntu (web development). Now, I want to install Windows on another partition to play a few games on my relax time. Which steps should I follow? Any suggestions? Every guide I found suggest to install Windows and, after that, Ubuntu. Being this my main development machine, I cannot afford the risk of wiping everything.
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I have two hard drives. One is used for Windows and one is empty. I want to install Ubuntu on the empty hard drive. The Windows hard drive is disk0 in Windows and the empty hard drive is disk1. When I install Ubuntu and it asks where I want to install it, I choose "Something Else" but I am stuck there. What do I choose for "boot loader installation"?
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What partitioning scheme do you recommend for a desktop? I've always created three or four primary partitions -- root, swap, home, and sometimes a separate boot partition. Ubuntu's default install offers LVMs. I've never had to add additional drives or space, so it never seemed like a big deal. Whenever I do a fresh install, though, I always think there might be a better way.
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I have got a dual boot system here with a couple of partitions:     Windows 7 OS partition Another partition for office data One partition for Ubuntu And of course one 100Mb partition auto-made by Windows And just like Windows one swap partition by Ubuntu   Of course, I wanted to have a separate partition for /boot and /home which I have not got here, so I would like to do that if it’s possible. Can I install GParted in my system and create a new partition by shrinking my existing / partition, then mount /home under it somehow? I don't want to mess up my system. Some concrete advice required here.
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Right now, I have everything in a partition (except EFI system partition). How can I split the partition into two, one for / and one for /home?   How would you use parted to do that step by step?  How would you use gparted to do that step by step?  How would you use LVM to do that step by step?   One thing I am not sure of is that I can't just shrink the partition and create a second partition on the space that is freed by shrinking, because that doesn't move /home to the new partition.  Thanks.    $ sudo parted -l [sudo] password for t:  Model: ATA TOSHIBA MQ01ABF0 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags:   Number  Start   End    Size   File system  Name                  Flags  1      1049kB  538MB  537MB  fat32        EFI System Partition  boot, esp  2      538MB   500GB  500GB  ext4  $ sudo df -h [sudo] password for t:  Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev            1.7G     0  1.7G   0% /dev tmpfs           340M  1.4M  338M   1% /run /dev/sda2       457G  6.7G  428G   2% / tmpfs           1.7G   27M  1.7G   2% /dev/shm tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock tmpfs           1.7G     0  1.7G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda1       511M  6.1M  505M   2% /boot/efi tmpfs           340M   20K  340M   1% /run/user/1000 tmpfs           340M     0  340M   0% /run/user/106
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I am using Windows 10, and hasn't got not enough SSD storage. So, I decide to install Ubuntu in a 32 GB USB stick (made by tf card and reader ).  I will not just try Ubuntu, but will use it everyday, and will install Python, VS Code, PyCharm, etc... Hope to learn coding with this USB stick. Will it work perfectly?
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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 have an external Hard disk with 500 GB capacity.  I have data filling almost 300 GB.  I want to install Ubuntu into it.  I have downloaded the iso and have written it to a USB drive as a bootable device.  My laptop runs on Windows 7.  What is the way to install Ubuntu in my external HDD.  I have yet to do any partitioning.  I would not like to lose the data.