I've just installed and booted to Ubuntu from my bootable USB, which is originally 8 GB USB.    Now when I'm looking at the USB size I can only find 1.1 GB partition?    Is Ubuntu really taking up 7 GB from my USB or am I missing something?
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I want to make a persistent live Ubuntu USB drive with more than 4GB of storage.   I know there is an option of installing directly on the drive but I don't want to do this as it will restrict the drive from working on different computers.   One option is to make an additional partition with extra space but if I do this how can I get newly installed software to be stored on this partition?
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Is there a way to quickly check the amount of free / used disk space in Ubuntu?  I would assume you could right click on 'file system' in the file browser and choose 'properties' or something but there is no such option.
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More specifically, I want to know if when I put the Ubuntu OS on my flash drive if it is permanent or not. As in,can I delete the Ubuntu installation files after I install it on my computer and use it as a regular USB again? I just want to install Ubuntu on a unformatted hard drive and then be able to use my USB like normal again.  Sorry, I know I must sound very redundant. Thank you for the help.
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I have a USB drive that I accidentally partitioned when trying to put Ubuntu on it. It's a 16 GB Kingston flash drive but it is now split to two partitions, 7.30 GB each.  How do I combine the two partitions into one? I have tried Disk Management in Windows but no luck.
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I'd like to fully install Ubuntu 12.10 onto a 16GB USB 3.0 flash drive, not create a LiveUSB, but to treat the flash drive as an external hard drive.   I've read it's possible and I know my computer can boot from it. However, it doesn't work when I try. I've booted a LiveUSB from another flash drive and installed Ubuntu onto the 16GB one. It finished successfully, but when I try to boot from it and it takes me straight to Windows 8 instead. I feel I've done something when installing the boot loader.  It'd be great if I had some step-by-step instructions for:     how many partitions to make,  what kind,  how big, and  where to install the boot loader.
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I'm trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on an HPG60 Laptop. I'm having a difficulty to install this coz I cant see the unallocated space I prepared in Windows.  As you can see on the attached screenshot:    I've prepared an unallocated space 96.72GB using Disk Management.  But when I boot up ubuntu and check Gparted,  I'm seeing this instead    An unallocated space of 1MB?!  Never encountered this before. I've installed ubuntu on a lenovo laptop that I use on office but I never like this before. Anybody have any idea why this is happening?
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Hello. I was trying to make a bootable flash drive from the startup disk creator, and when I went to erase the flash drive I accidentally erased the wrong drive, a 1TB removable drive. The operation took less than a second and gave no warning. I tried erasing the flash drive and it took about a minute, but it took but a second to erase the 1 TB drive, which is very surprising.  Please help, Gabriel
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I have made a BOOTABLE USB installation of Ubuntu 13.04 using . I also have Windows 8 on separate partition. After I finished installing Ubuntu 13.04 from the USB, it went straight to Windows 8 without Grub showing to ask me to select an operating system, how can i fix this ? I don't have UEFI or secure boot.
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Any of the partitions makes in Windows was not recognised by Ubuntu, or Zorin OS, or LinuxMint. It's like a blank hard disc, 250 gb free. I'm a new Linux user, but what confuses me is that I was able to install Ubuntu alongside Windows on my laptop with no problems, but on PC... no way!
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I installed Ubuntu (I had already had Windows 8.1) from USB (I still have live Ubuntu on it). Is there a way I can uninstall Ubuntu in a way that my Windows will remain bootable? All the tutorials I have seen say that uninstalling ubuntu will delete GRUB also so I will need a Windows recovery CD to boot into it, but I don't have one. Is there a solution?
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So, I have a friend who has a flash drive that was playing music on a dvd player. Everything was great then all of a sudden it just stopped. First, I tried to do some data recovery on it but the software i use couldn't find the USB. The usb was sending us the usual error not formatted messages.  I then did a quick format of it and now it only shows 4 megabytes of space. I tried using Disk manager, then DISKPART, but nothing i have tried works.  Disk Managment looks like this:    As you can see it doesn't even show the unallocated space. It doesn't look like it is anything but a 4 mega byte flash drive.  Is it still possible to, at the very least, resurrect the USB?
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I have Ubuntu 10.10 installed inside of Windows using . I am running out of space on my Ubuntu disk (currently  405.1 MB free). I have a 180 GB hard drive and when I installed Ubuntu I only allocated 10 GB to it.   How can I resize my disk to give Ubuntu some more space?
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I have an old computer that can't handle a boot stick install, so i have to create an actual, old fashioned boot CD.  However, the image size for Ubuntu 12.04 is 732MB, which is too large for a CD, which can hold only 700MB.  The maintainers of Ubuntu 12.04 say the image size will never go over 700MB, and indeed, the download size seemed to be 689MB.  Brasero says it won't burn the CD because the file is too big, what's going on?
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I am about to install Ubuntu on my new laptop, but I don't have access to a USB drive of any sort and it doesn't have an optical drive. Would it be possible to boot into the Ubuntu installer if I save it to a new partition on my hard drive and boot from there via the BIOS?  In case you need it, , which lists my system specifications.  Thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to provide. :)
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I have recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my dual boot PC with Windows 8.1. On Ubuntu I have seen a 524 MB drive popped up.  As I take a look at it, its not swap or anything. Its contents are as follows:   Can I delete the partition and extend the 104 GB partition? Or I should leave it as it is?
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I want to create a recovery flash drive. I have my 8 gb flash drive[Kingston data traveller] with me. I also have the required .iso files for a>Ubuntu 13.10 b>Boot-repair disk c>AVG Rescue CD  I Wish to create 4 partitions(3 for each bootable .iso and one for data storage. Also, I want a way in which I can select which OS to boot each time I boot from USB.   So, is there a way to install GRUB on USB as well as the three other live distros? And how to create such a setup?
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For ridiculously small hard drives (8GB), what Ubuntu Based (although not necessarily official) distribution offers the smallest installed size?  Let me clarify: I still want a certain amount of personal file space, preferably a few gig. I also don't have a problem with performance, while it is mediocre, a 2.6GHz single-core and 1GB of ram suffice to run ubuntu fine, but i find that it  uses 6-7GB of space. I am aiming for closer to 4GB.