I'm installing Ubuntu 16.04 with manual partitioning, and need to choose a separate partition for /var/log. However, in the installer, there does not seem to be an option for doing this. The drop-down menu only has /, /boot, /home, /tmp, /usr, /var, /srv, /opt, and /usr/local.  What is the easiest way to put /var/log on a separate partition?
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I'd like to see the full How-To on how to use manual partitioning during Ubuntu installation. The existing guides (at least those I found here) cover only automatic part and leave untouched the manual part (or extremely short and contain no pictures).  I'd like to cover such situations:     If your disk contains other systems:
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I installed 12.04 over a prior (experimental) install of 10.10. Somehow in the setup, I did not specify that /home be set to a separate (extended) partition (/dev/sda7). So the install set up /home on the /root partition, and I am now in a right serious muddle.  I would like to   1) tell it to set /home to sda7 (permanently so that it boots each time that  way), and  2) move my existing /home from my old workhorse 10.04 to /home on this 12.04 computer. (I remember that one creates a tarball on the source computer, copies it over to the target computer, then extracts the tarball on the new computer. But I don't know, and don't seem to find, the correct steps to do this.  How to resolve this?  Any guidance will be much appreciated. I use my computer heavily, but don't seem to have many problems and consequently never get much past the noobie stage of Linux in terms of using the terminal, so your kindness in laying out the steps will be most helpful.
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Is it possible to have 64.5GB log files in Ubuntu? Can I delete those files? My laptop is dual booted and the Ubuntu partition is only 100GB.
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I am installing p4v in /opt, but /usr/bin is on my path.  Is it possible to create a soft or symbolic link for p4v from /opt to /usr/bin, so I can just type "p4v" since /usr/bin is in my path?
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I think my Ubuntu is a bit broken from messing around with it.  Unfortunately during installation, I did not make a separate partition for /home. Now I need to re-install but want to keep my music and films.  Any ideas...
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I am setting up my system. The features of it are:   GPT partition table (not sure how important this is) Triple boot - Gentoo, Debian and Mint. Custom kernel (kernel git repo) shared amounst distros.   Now I am wanting to write my own lines for grub and not have the distros place their own lines in grub. I also don't really want one distro to have the role of creating the grub.conf file.  As everybody is advocating the scripts, there is no one mentioning about hand crafting one. I am fairly sure editing it by hand is safe, so long as I make sure no script touches it.  Another solution that I might be forced into is to configure every distro the same way (no kernels in menu, keep the custom config synced between distros), or just use one distro to manage the boot.  How should I implement this?
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I accidentally changed /var owner/group to my username and then changed it back to root, but not all the /var folders' owners are root, so is there anyway to change back owner/group of files/folders to default state?  Or at least those files/folders that are created by packages?
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Every time I read the tips for installing an SDK, IDE, some extension and so on, it says, that I should unpack them in /opt folder. Why do I need to do that?   When I was installing Ubuntu, I read that I should set only 10-20 GiB for the / file system and remaining space set for /home. So should I extend the space for root folder, or leave all stuff at /home? Is there any difference?
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I have a windows 7 Computer.  I want to install ubuntu.  I know if I install to the unallocated it will set up the multiboot like it should.  However, I want to set the partitions up manually, I want different stuff in different partitions, e.g. logs.  If I do this, will the installer still set up the multiboot like it should?
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This doesn't work:  tar xf /tmp/foo.tar.gz foo/bar tar: foo/bar: Not found in archive   It's not obvious to me what would do this beyond extracting it in place and moving the files over.
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Ok I just royally screwed up my /var folder's permissions.  I thought I was inside /var/www and did a chmod xxx ./* on the parent folder /var instead.  Now all the permissions inside /var are messed up. What can I do to correct it?
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I'm trying to free up some disk space - if I do a df -h, I have a filesystem called /dev/mapper/vg00-var which says its 4G, 3.8G used, 205M left.  That corresponds to my /var directory.  If I descend into /var and do du -kscxh *, the total is 2.1G  2.1G + 200M free = 2.3G... So my question is, where is the remaining 1.7G ?
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I have a MacBook with 1TB SSD. I want to have two separate partitions with two independent macOS installations. I want to make sure that none of the partitions have any kind of possibility to interact with the other, I want them to be as separated as if they were physically separate. Is this achievable with, for example, FileVault for each of them? Edit: My question is neither &quot;how can I install two different macOS versions on two different partitions on one SDD&quot;, neither &quot;how do I use FileVault&quot;, etc. I know how to do all of that. I want to make sure that there is no interaction between the partitions possible. Can this be made sure with the above approach? Is it sufficient?
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Are there Apple guidelines for where user shell tools in Mountain Lion should be installed? Some (e.g. TeX, or Apple's Git) end up in /usr, and others (e.g. X11) seem to end up in /opt (sometimes with a symlink from /usr), while others (e.g., Git) end up in /user/local, and I wonder what the difference is, and whether one is preferred over the other.
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I have a bunch of files from log1 to log164.  I'm trying to LIST the directory (sorted) in a UNIX terminal but the sort functions are only providing the format like this:  home:logs Home$ ls -1 | sort log1.gz log10.gz log100.gz log101.gz log102.gz log103.gz log104.gz log105.gz log106.gz ...etc   What I want is  home:logs Home$ ls -1 | sort log1.gz log2.gz log3.gz log4.gz log5.gz log6.gz log7.gz ...{more here} log99.gz log100.gz log101.gz log102.gz ...etc   Any suggestions in what I could use to do this?
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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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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?