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Mystery of a small 1K hard disk partition, and is it safe or malware on Ubuntu 12.04.02LTS Amd64 generic
Look at my bizarre sda4 partition. It is just 1K in size! Be mindful that this is not cluster size, this is partition size. I did not knowingly install this sda4 super small partition. This is not ...
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Partitioning. Arch vs Ubuntu manuals
I got a little confused after I had read advices on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning and on https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/installation-guide/powerpc/directory-tree.html. Why is there ...
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GParted messed up my partitions
Update: running testdisk I can actually see all of my files in /dev/sda1!
I wanted to install Windows alongside my Debian installation in order to play some games. In order to do that, I had to boot ...
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How to create partition in ubuntu server 12.10
I'm trying to create partition during Ubuntu Server installation(12.10).Now I have a 500GB hard disk where I need to create a partition of 200GB for root file system and another 20GB for swap space ...
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Ubuntu 12 installation - partitions
I want to install Ubuntu 12 and I would like to partition my hard drive so that the OS lives in its own partition and the data in a different one. Thus if the system breaks for some reason, the data ...
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Boot disk unavailable
Background
I've got one 32GB SSD that I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed on (this drive is encrypted), and two 1.5TB drives that will serve as storage and backup respectively. I have formated both drives ...
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How should I partition my hard drive?
Xubuntu 12.10
XFCE with Greybird theme
Hello,
this is my GParted screenshot:
Could anyone please give my any advice on how to make changes to have more space available for use in Linux? Let's ...
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Optimal Setup for Windows & Linux - Sharing and Partitioning
This question gets a little complicated so please bear with me.
So we have a new custom designed desktop which we will be mostly a dedicated machine for scientific computations in FORTRAN and ...
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Moving a root directory to a separate partition
I'd like to create a new partition and move the contents of the /var directory to it for the security reason of having /var/www and other subdirectories "mounted" with nosuid, noexec, and nodev ...
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changing the partition of a linux
I have a ubuntu system as a virtual system on Virtual Box. It uses VHD as its hard disk.
I manged to change the size of VHD using VHD resizer, now I want to expand the partition on vhd so it uses the ...
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shrinking partition containing root filesystem [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Change main partition size to install another distribution
this is the image showing partitions on my hard drive. I am reading linux from scratch and so i need to ...
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What are the ramifications of not having a valid partition table?
I recently upgraded my Ubuntu from 11.10 (Oneiric) to 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) on a Dell Inspiron B130 Laptop. When I run fdisk -l it says that my HD doesn't contain a valid partition table. I have ...
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Partitioning Ubuntu and Windows 7 once and for all
I am dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu (installed with wubi). So far there have been no problems, but now it says the disk is out of space all the time (I think that is because /dev/loop0 is used 100% ...
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How extend linux partition with?(after success to extend : fail to boot computer)
I have Ubuntu and I want to enlarge the disk space of /dev/sda1 from 10GB to 90GB.
gparted Ubuntu 9.04 live cd show:
Partition File System Size
/dev/sda1 ext4 10GB
/dev/sda2 ...
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How do I permanently mount a separate partition as folder in a separate home partition?
I'd like to create the following situation:
A separate partition for my user's home directory,
A second separate partition for ~/Documents, and
A third separate partition for ~/Videos and ~/Music.
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Will my programs installed in Ubuntu be usable by another distro in a dual-boot set-up?
I am interested in setting up my machine so that I can try different distributions of Linux. I want to always be running Ubuntu (10.04.3), but would then try other distros in a dual-boot setting.
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Switching runlevel when moving /var to another partition
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and I would like to move /var to another partition using a python script. I found some directions that I thought were pretty good, but they call for switching to runlevel 1 ...
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How can I fix a partition conflict?
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 on a 250 gb hdd. I chose at installation to install all on one partition (it was recommended for beginners). Unfortunately, I need to use Windows 7 too. I didn't want to ...
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Adding an unused partition to a linux filesystem
I am running kubuntu 11.04. I installed it in a dual-boot scenario on a single drive, with Windows XP installed first. The XP installation is fubar so I now would like to use the space in kubuntu.
I ...
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How do I resize a partition in Ubuntu linux without losing data?
I ran out of space in my on the drive only to find that there was another unformatted partition in the system that is available. I now want to resize the current partition to take in the empty ...
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Problems moving home partition
I was running low in disk space on my Linux box, Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop, (specifically on my /home partition) so I added another disk to it and I am trying to move the home partition into it.
I am ...
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Preseeding Ubuntu 10.04
I need to preseed a dual boot installation of Ubuntu 10.04. I want partman to use all already existing Linux partitions and all free space (like the option when installing Fedora) what would that ...
