I bought this computer one year ago and it came with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I used the computer as it came and I didn't have problems until now when I can't even download photos because the storage is full. In settings it says I only have 7,7GB s available even though on the computer specs it is 1TB. I ran lsblk in the terminal and it does show that I have 1TB of space but I can only use 7,7GB for some reason. How can I fix this? sda      8:0    0 931,5G  0 disk  ├─sda1   8:1    0   3,8G  0 part [SWAP] └─sda2   8:2    0   7,5G  0 part / sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom
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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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This question intends to demystify  the desktop installer for Ubuntu, on how the required disk space before installation is being determined.  From this dated post :     [When installing] Ubuntu 12.04 alongside with Windows 7 using the Ubuntu installer, [the user] wasn't able to give Ubuntu less than 32 GB [...] and as the guide states, "Ubuntu needs about 4.5 GB to install, so add a few extra GB to allow for your files".   The required disk space was previously about 5 GB (Ubuntu 12.04), 8 GB (Ubuntu 16.04), and has since increased to 25 GB (Ubuntu 18.04), as per . In practice, the absolute minimum for required disk space may differ by installation media and machine.  The design spec via  describes the installer mockup and nothing else about how the required disk space is determined (top half screenshot).    I have clarified that Ubuntu 16.04 will require at least 8 GB disk space only on a physical machine, but the minimum changes to 8.3 GB when installing to a virtual machine (bottom half screenshot).  So how does Ubiquity determine the required disk space?
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Can anyone help explain why there is 17 GB worth of free space on my LVG I can't seem to do anything with this space. Is there anyway to fix this? I have already reformatted the disk then cloned the contents back with CCC. I also have FileVault enabled.  Whenever I see this on others setups it is usually a few KB not 17 GB
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So I've been cleaning up my desktop for the last few minutes, and I tried to delete this empty folder, but it has some 3.46GB of data in it? And I'm like wtf is going on. Any ideas of why this is happening? I restarted my computer, thinking it was just some kind of fluke, but it is still happening.
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I'm sure this has been answered somewhere on here before (I even found kinda a guide , but seemed to be a bit spotty and incomplete) but I was wondering if someone could assist me or at least point me in the right direction to get what I'm trying done accomplished.  Basically I installed Ubuntu 14.04 (via "Guided - use the entire disk and setup LVM") on a 20GB disk. I then physically added a clean 80GB disk to the machine, which it detects as 'sdb'.  Basically my question is, I want to be able to add/combine the allocated amount of space from the new disk (80GB) to my machine so that instead of showing two drives (20GB and 80GB), it simply shows one drive (100GB). I'm not worried about RAID or any other special add-ons.  I'm somewhat new to Linux, but understand that I need to use LVM to accomplish this.  If there is anyone who can help me out or link me to a helpful guide/tutorial, it would be very much appreciated! Not sure if this is needed either, but here is my 'fdisk -l' and '/etc/fstab' output:  fdisk output (shortened):  Disk /dev/sda: 21.5 GB, 21474836480 bytes    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1    *       2048      499711      248832   83  Linux /dev/sda2          501758    41940991    20719617    5  Extended /dev/sda5          501760    41940991    20719616   8e  Linux LVM  Disk /dev/sdb: 85.9 GB, 85899345920 bytes Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table  Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root: 20.4 GB, 20392706048 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root doesn't contain a valid partition table  Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1: 801 MB, 801112064 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 doesn't contain a valid partition table   /etc/fstab (shortened):  # &lt;file system&gt; &lt;mount point&gt;   &lt;type&gt;  &lt;options&gt;       &lt;dump&gt;  &lt;pass&gt; /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1 # /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation UUID=26710773-7a64-4f34-a34e-0057cb1739d7 /boot           ext2    defaults        0       2 /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 none            swap    sw              0       0
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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 am trying to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a Dell XPS 13 (9350). The laptop came with Windows 10 pre-installed. I am installing from a pendrive but I think the issue would be the same if I used e.g. a USB DVD drive.   Dude, where's my hard drive?  I am blocked because the installation program cannot find 8.6Gb of free space on my hard drive despite the fact that there are hundreds of Gb free according to Windows. Digging a bit into the problem, it seems that Ubuntu cannot see my hard disk at all.    This is the output of GParted:    I am not sure what that drive mounted at /cdrom is, but it seems the only device that exists in the system that is not a RAM disk or a loop device:   Content of /proc/partitions:   ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/partitions   major minor  #blocks  name     1        0      65536 ram0     1        1      65536 ram1     1        2      65536 ram2     1        3      65536 ram3     1        4      65536 ram4     1        5      65536 ram5     1        6      65536 ram6     1        7      65536 ram7     1        8      65536 ram8     1        9      65536 ram9     1       10      65536 ram10     1       11      65536 ram11     1       12      65536 ram12     1       13      65536 ram13     1       14      65536 ram14     1       15      65536 ram15     7        0     130048 loop0     7        1    1104188 loop1     8        0    1970239 sda     8        1    1953439 sda1   Summary of fdisk -l:   ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l |grep Disk Disk /dev/ram0: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram1: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram2: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram3: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram4: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram5: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram6: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram7: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram8: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram9: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram10: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram11: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram12: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram13: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram14: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram15: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/loop0: 127 MiB, 133169152 bytes, 260096 sectors Disk /dev/loop1: 1.1 GiB, 1130688512 bytes, 2208376 sectors Disk /dev/sda: 1.9 GiB, 2017525248 bytes, 3940479 sectors Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00000000   Result of fdisk of the only non-loop non-RAM device (not sure this is relevant):   ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l |grep -A 50 sda Disk /dev/sda: 1.9 GiB, 2017525248 bytes, 3940479 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 Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00000000  Device     Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type /dev/sda1  *      129 3907007 3906879  1.9G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)   I am blocked at this point. Any help will be much appreciated.   Additional information (following comments):   Running dmesg |grep -i sata shows (among others) eight lines that suggest some kind of error:   ata1: SATA link down (SStatus FFFFFFFF SControl FFFFFFFF) ata2: SATA link down (SStatus FFFFFFFF SControl FFFFFFFF) ata3: SATA link down (SStatus FFFFFFFF SControl FFFFFFFF) ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) ata8: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)  I have "Restarted" windows instead of only "Shutdown" it to avoid problems with "fast startup", following some recommendations I have read of other users having problems installing Linux on Windows 10 laptops.ago   Regarding SATA, the BIOS says: "SATA Operation: RAID ON". The other two options available are "Disabled" and "AHCI".    I have followed the instructions of these two pages from Dell: , .
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It used to say 8GB capacity in the General > About Settings menu. Now it only says 5.4. I've done a "restore as new" but it's still showing the same.  Help?
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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 just got it, it said there wasn't enough storage and I erased almost everything, but apparently my storage is full and I can't play it. Help?
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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 wonder if someone can help me? I am fairly new to trying to actually understand and use computers myself rather than just buying whatever Windows/Mac wants me to! You will get a giggle from my flawed attempts anyway :-)  I would like to start using Ubuntu on my PC, just got a new harddrive and did have a borrowed windows 7 disk as was planning to temporarily install it so i could get ubuntu. However I didn't have high enough spec hardware for win 7 (I think it is due to only 1gb ram, i do have 64 bit technology and a 1tb harddrive). I am quite happy to install 32 bit ubuntu and hear it is easier the use than 64 anyway.  So I have one other rubbish mini laptop (windows xp) which i am trying to use to get ubuntu onto a usb (laptop has no cd drive) so i can install it on the pc. First tried just downloading ubuntu 13.04 desktop onto a usb and trying to boot the pc from it which gave the message 'no operating system'. Then I tried this to create a bootable usb which sounded promising:  . However then it starting asking for my saucy desktop iso in order to install it onto the usb stick, can't really manage to find out what a saucy desktopp iso is, maybe a mirror image of an operating system, no idea why i would need that.  So in short, I'm lost. All I can think of is getting windows xp somewhere so i can get my pc to work and install ubuntu from the internet on that, or going to a friends house in the hope that creating a bootable cd is easier than creating a usb.  Sorry for my general ineptness and hope someone can help!
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So i want to install Ubuntu and im booting from USB. Im new to Ubuntu.  When i click SOMETHING ELSE, it shows 4 partions: the first of 1mb, sda1, unknown free space, second of 100mb sda2 (that i know its system recovery from win7), third is 170gb (win7) sda3, and the last one is like 830gb, i dont know where this came from.... on windows i have them separated.  is this a bug or something? How to install without losing all my data and keeping Win7?  When i try without installing i get to see my 3 partions (170gb, 600gb, 230gb) but not when i try to install.  Edit  ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda   outputs this:  GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.7   Partition table scan:   MBR: MBR only   BSD: not present   APM: not present   GPT: not present   *************************************************************** Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format in memory.  ***************************************************************  Disk /dev/sda: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 2729AEE7-A594-4A07-91DF-96116B581067 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134 Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries Total free space is 2044 sectors (1022.0 KiB)  Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name    1              63            2047   992.5 KiB   4200  Windows LDM data    2            2048          206847   100.0 MiB   4200  Windows LDM data    3          206848       245762047   117.1 GiB   4200  Windows LDM data    4       245762048      1953523119   814.3 GiB   4200  Windows LDM data   And,  ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l   outputs this:  Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 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: 0x13344b63     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1              63        2047         992+  42  SFS Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sda2   *        2048      206847      102400   42  SFS /dev/sda3          206848   245762047   122777600   42  SFS /dev/sda4       245762048  1953523119   853880536   42  SFS
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Possible Duplicate:        My Windows 7 is 64-bit, and I thought that means it can use the full 4GB of RAM installed on the computer.  But I just saw this on my computer's properties: (So only 3.25GB is usable??)
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I would like to have a list of the installed software on my machine, with the disk space consumed by them alongside. I would prefer to be able to order by largest/smallest, but that is not a necessity.  I am the sort of person who will install software to try it, and never clean up after myself.  As a result, my 7GB (Windows and my Data are on separate partitions, as well as a swap area) Ubuntu 11.04 partition is suffering, and has started regularly showing warning messages.
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I already tried FORMAT /FS:FAT, , Disk Management and .   Do I really need to buy a smaller capacity drive? Can't a formatting tool ignore the area beyond 2&nbsp;GB?  My Asus netbook's BIOS update requires the USB to be formatted as , and I couldn't get the various Asus BIOS update utilities to work.
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I'm new to how Ubuntu works and installed it yesterday alongside Windows 7, but in doing so I have created a few problems. I have partitions for Windows, Ubuntu, System Recovery, and storage for all my files with the intention to access them on either OS, but I don't even see all of my drives listed on Home Folder. Not to mention that  during the Ubuntu instillation I managed to screw up any chance of booting to the Windows side of things at all. I'll fix Windows once I get my hands on a copy in a couple days, but in the mean time any suggestions for accessing my files?  If you need me to find any data about my computer to help you figure out what's wrong with it, please don't hesitate to tell me what I need to show you. Thanks