I installed Ubuntu 20.04 six Months ago and my Issue is, I installed Ubuntu with custom partition schema (created partitions myself) as this: My Partition Table  And Because I do development (and curious to test OSS projects usually), 20GB in the /home is not enough and very often I have to move things around to other partitions which obviously gonna delete them soon because I just experimenting with'em anyway.  I seperated /home and /root just because if I messed up smth in the system my personal files will be safe (hopefully).  I wanted to be to shrink the /root partition which is ~260GB in order to increase /home which is 20GB partition, but it seems impossible as the data in /root is stored in the beginning of the partition so I can't grow the /home partition. Hence, I read about that, Linux systems use files as swap nowadays, I thought I could delete that partition but also afraid of losing data if I grow the /home partition in the beginning. I thought that no place is better to ask! if there is another option to move the data far from the beginning so I can resize the partitions at either side safely?
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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'm new to GParted. I have to resize a partition that contains root file system which is full. Previously I had Windows installed in my system. I use a 250GB hard drive and was divided into 3 drives namely C, D and E drive. After this I installed Ubuntu and used the existing NTFS file system, to install Ubuntu. Now, I need to resize the partition mounted on root file system as it is full. Below is the link to screenshot of GParted -    What should I do to increase the size the /dev/sda6 without any data loss in GParted
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Based on some recommendations I read online, on install of a new (Ubuntu) system, I made my /boot partition separate from / and small in size (only around 50 MB). It makes sense to me that you would only need limited files in that partition, and the boot sequence only needs so much data initial data on boot so no need (or so goes my thinking) to make it much larger.   I was surprised as I started using my system and installing software was failing due to the following (or similar) issue:  gzip: stdout: No space left on device cpio: write error: Broken pipe E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 1 gzip 1 update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-18-generic with 1.   I have already seen  and am planning on doing a reinstall with a larger /boot partition. My questions are:  Why does the /boot partition data get updated when I am only installing software?  obviously 50 MB is too small for my needs, so what would be a reasonable /boot partition size?  Does it even make sense to have separate boot partition? after all it could simply use all the disk space it wants in the / partition.
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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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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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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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When I installed Ubuntu 10.04, I installed it on a single 16GB partition which includes /, /boot, /home etc.  I have another partition on the system (ext3). It is easily accessible from the GNOME desktop Places menu: I just click that Filesystem HDD icon on the Places menu and it is automatically mount as '/media/1326f40a-45df-4ec'.  How do I make that partition re-mount as /home instead? (permanently, that is)
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I have Ubuntu 14.04 with a lot of packages and work related stuff that I am very happy with it. It is installed on my main SSD drive which is a 120GB one (I had choosen "/" when I installed ubuntu, so I beleive everything should be on this drive). It shows up as /dev/sda  Now I have added another SSD to my computer which is a 240Gb. I do not have any other storage media at hand at the moment (e.g. external hard drive).   Since the new 240GB drive has obviously more capacity and is faster (a newer generation than my 120GB one), I want to move my Linux to this new drive. This new drive shows up as /dev/sdb and at the moment it is not formatted or anything (I have literally unpackaged and inserted in my PC right now :P)  How can I safely move my linux installation to the new drive?  I can change the SATA cable so the new drive shows as /dev/sda if necessary.  This is the output of "fdisk -l" if that helps:  Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00076d7a     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *        2048   226064383   113031168   83  Linux /dev/sda2       226066430   234440703     4187137    5  Extended Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sda5       226066432   234440703     4187136   82  Linux swap / Solaris  Disk /dev/sdb: 240.1 GB, 240057409536 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 29185 cylinders, total 468862128 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: 0x00000000  Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
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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 was reading the new changes with Ubuntu 17.04 and one caught my eye which was moving from the typical swap partition model to a new swap file model for new installs.   Are there benefits for using this as opposed to a swap partition, maybe related to or in terms of performance, space saving, more in line with today's hardware like SSD and NVMe or something else?  Another related question is how can I migrate from a swap partition to a swap file? I'm guessing using dd but want to confirm since I did not know about the swap file scheme until now.  And lastly, will hibernation be an issue with swap files?  Of course these questions might be related to cases where the user has a lot of RAM and the swap is rarely used (I'm guessing). So just to confirm that this information will help me and others with the same doubts.
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I have, by default, 250MB of swap space in Ubuntu, and I want to expand it to a larger size. I need 800MB, which I think will be enough to open several applications without having to hit the current limit of swap. I hope someone can help me.
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These are my current disk partitions. /yedek is for some personal backup files. As you can see there is only Ubuntu on my PC. I will install Windows, too. Because of this I want to shrink /dev/sda3 . It currently 546GB and I want to split it: 300GB for / and 246GB for Windows (NTFS) is OK for me.  I'm using GParted for the first time. How can I shrink /?  I don't want to lose any datas from Ubuntu.
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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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I have a laptop with win7 installed. I have now made a 60gb partition which I want to install ubuntu into. The question I have, before I do the installation, is how large each of the root, swap, and home partition should be? I have read some place that root could be as small as 8GB, but isn't that too small? Since I guess beside ubuntu all the softwares installed will reside there as well? And I think I'm going to set my swap to be 2GB large.  My main concern is how large should the root partition should be. I'm mainly going to use ubuntu for programming and browse the web.
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I have Ubuntu installed on a drive. The problem is it is running low on disk space. This is installed on vmware. I expanded the virtual drive and booted into ubuntu. But when I opened gparted(sudo gparted), the move/resize option is unavailable. This is the partition Ubuntu is installed on, but I need to resize it. Any ideas? I am comfortable using command line
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I wanna create a new partition from the existing root partition.My root partition is about 250GB.I wanna create a new partition say 150 GB taking space from this root partition.Can anyone help me with the procedure on doing this?  output: fdisk -l  karthick@karthick:~$ sudo fdisk -l [sudo] password for karthick:   Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x28219744  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *           1          61      487424   83  Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2              61       30395   243650561    5  Extended /dev/sda5              61         124      498688   82  Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6             124         186      498688   82  Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7             186       30395   242651136   83  Linux
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I am currently running Ubuntu 11.10 off of a SanDisk 16GB USB. I installed it using a Live USB with the following partition configuration:  6GB Primary /dos   FAT32 5GB Logical /      ext4 5GB Logical /home  ext4   I don't have a hard disk, and don't see myself getting one anytime soon.   I rely solely on this 16GB, and two other 4GB USBs, one of which I used as the LiveUSB. I bring the USBs around, and even use the install at work.   I previously used an install that used a swap file. It functioned fine for the most part, save for a few slow moments, but I came across , and it got me thinking about my USB's life, so I reinstalled with the current config.   My problem now is that it is slower. Applications like Firefox would hang more often. In my previous setup (the automatically partitioned setup), Firefox would start hanging if I was running an unzip or install task on the same partition as /.   Now however, it would hang if I had another window open i.e. the system settings window. My guess is that it may have something to do with the swap file or the install being on a Logical partition rather than a Primary partition, but I don't know.   Any insight as to why it has slowed down?