General :: GParted Partitioning Options - Align To Cylinder Or To MiB?
Sep 24, 2010
For the GParted partitioning options, when creating or changing a partition on a SATA hard drive, which option is best to use; (align to cylinder, or to MiB )? The newest version of GParted I used, and it did default to "align to MiB, which then created 1 MB gaps between some partitions. Is it better to have no gaps, and is this new version safe to use to move and or resize NTFS windows partitions ? Will it include the boot sector when it moves or resizes ntfs ?
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Jul 5, 2011
I usually use Ubuntu as a way of accessing my hard drive when Windows 7 crashes. I now want to reinstall Ubuntu on my hard drive as a seperate OS on its own partition.
I installed Windows 7 already, and I allocated about 60gb for Ubuntu. The problem now is manually arranging the different options in the Ubuntu partitioning menu. I tried the automatic installation but I was unhappy with the fact that it merged my W7 and the Ubuntu installation on a partition.
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Feb 6, 2011
I have available Space and i want this Space on my Ubuntu. That Means that l want the unallocated 92.77GB on my /dev/sda8 (ext4)?!?!?. But I cant Resize the Partition ... What do I have to do ? I tried it using Ubuntu on my USB. But it was the same.... Do I have to unmount something?
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Aug 14, 2010
I have a question someone may help with. Why is it Vista seems to be so off limits to partitioning? I have never seen it where you could not create partitions like you want until I ran across Vista on a Compaq Presario F 700 Laptop. I finally got The vista partitioning tool too to allow me 12 Gigs but that is it. I seemingly can go no further. I would like to keep Vista on there but take it to the bare minimum HD size, so I can load other linux OS's.
I have 56 gigs of free space after installing ubuntu 9.10 So far I haven't been able to make a swap partition or any other partition for that matter. Is there a way to manipulate Vista partitions?
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Jul 9, 2011
I find myself in a position to go full time, on at least one computer in my home, to Ubuntu. On a side note, I'm not overly thrilled with the new Unity, but I'm certain that before 11.10 comes about, most of what irritates me about it will be fixed.
My problem is now not really involving Ubuntu, but to commit this computer to full time Ubuntu, I've decided to remove the Windows Partition completely. (I can access what I need through VirtualBox. I don't think anyone really ever gets COMPLETELY away from Windows, but that's a different subject.) Anyway, here is a picture of my partition table.
What I'd like to do is completely remove the windows partitions, which are obviously the first two on here, and then extend my Ubuntu partition to the left to fill in what will then become unallocated space. However, when I try this, I don't have the option to grow my Ubuntu partition to the left. How DO I do that? I know I've heard of it being done before, and I can't be the first to have run into this situation.
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Dec 13, 2010
I now have an install of Ubuntu 10.10 on a USB drive and would like to clone the result onto another USB drive of the same size. Both USB drives are 4Gb. I've used Gparted Partitioning Editor and have copied from the master USB stick to another USB stick. Looking from within the editor they look the same in terms of configuration after the copying process e.g same filesystem boot flag set.
When I try to boot off the copied USB stick it comes up with a 'no operating system' message at boot. Is this the right tool to use to clone USB sticks or is there another option?
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Jan 29, 2010
1. I have windows xp on my notebook compaq presario v2000.
2. Wanted to load linux as dual boot.
3. Tried with Suse linux, but there was some blank or black screen problem after installation.
4. Someone suggested Ubuntu linux.
5. Downloaded and burned ubuntu on a cd.
6. But this time during installation during partitioning there was a serious problem.
7. On ubuntu webpage they say for partiioning i will get 4 option, but i got only three options in my cd.
8. The missing option was the most important , which was required for dual boot. " Guided resize and use free space".
9. So i had to abort my Ubuntu installation as using any other option could have effected my current xp installation or might have formated my whole notebook.
10. So any comment why the dual boot partitioning option was absent in my ubuntu cd.
11. Or there is some thing to be activated in my notebook setting to enable dual boot.
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Apr 14, 2010
In GUI style editors, you can generally select multiple lines, press tab a few times to move all the lines across (or shift-tab to go back). I have no idea how to do this in VIM.I googled around and couldn't find any straight answer to I came here.
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Sep 18, 2009
I have 3 Ubuntu installations & a PCLINUXOS, plus Windows XP installed on one hard disk. I still can boot to each one of them and can mount each one using Ubuntu.
The problem "may" have occurred when I reduced the size of some linux partitions using gparted. I still have plenty of space in each of those partitions.
When I started gparted all of the HD was unallocated. I did that from each ubuntu installation and the PCLINUX installation, plus LIVECDs. All indicated the space was unallocated.
When I did an fdisk -l from a Puppy Linux LiveCD I got a normal start and ends of each partition.
When I tried it from Ubuntu installation or live cd, I received the following types of responses:
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda5
Disk /dev/sda5: 28.5 GB, 28566397440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3473 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -u /dev/sda5
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3473.There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Plus the Windows partition seems to go over its limits.
Since all of my OS installations are still working, I don't know how critical this is. From reading another post, I understand this might be able to be fixed by making some changes in fstab.
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Mar 3, 2011
I have a 500g hard drive using dual boot win7 and ubuntu 10.04.2. The system is boot from MBR using Grub1.98. The partitioned as the follows:
system reserve100m |win7,42g|software 100g|empty 100g|extended 253g
logic partition is as follows:
| ubuntu / 250g | swap 4g
Since I want to make use of the "empty" part. I delete it and the "software" partition under win7. Then I create a new partition on the part.
After I reboot my pc, the screen shows:
>> operating system no such partition.
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how to resize my partition table so I can KEEP MY DATA on the ubuntu / partition. Or someway I can get my ubuntu / partition back.
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Feb 25, 2011
I was just reading about the whole boot process on computers and am curious as to why the BIOS can only read and execute code and data from only cylinder 0, track 0 and sector 1 of the disk being booted from? Why can't the BIOS read from any other disk location?
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Aug 20, 2010
align the calendar with the rest
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Aug 26, 2010
when I right click on my desktop and use Clean up by Name (Keep Aligned is checked) it aligns my desktop icons in a strange way! non of the rows are aligned! and there is a gap between 2nd and 3rd column! also some PDF icons are bigger that others! how can i set all of them equal and really aligned?!
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Jan 25, 2011
I've recently bought a new laptop with a Kingston 128gb SSD, which came preloaded with Windows 7. I'm looking to wipe it completely (Not quite sure how to do this, although that's not the main question of this thread) and install Ubuntu on it.
After some researching yesterday, I've learned that for an SSD to work at it's maximum potential you want to have the partition start after one complete block. (Or at least that's how I understood it)
Does Ubuntu automatically configure its partitions to do this upon install?
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Mar 25, 2010
I'm trying to make buttons for a webpage - each button has a "graphic" part - say an oval with a drop shadow, and text on top of that, such as "About Us", "Contact Us" etc. I'd like the text to line up horizontally against one another, so that if the buttons are placed next to one another in a straight line across the page, the texts line up with one another. How do I do this in GIMP?Common sense suggests that the "Align" tool should be what I should be using, but how do I use it?
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Oct 27, 2010
using the amsmath package with texlive on lucid lynx, a simple
egin{align}
x &= 1
end{align}
gives the following error:
! Missing # inserted in alignment preamble.
<to be read again>
crcr
l.424 end{align}
the same .tex file works fine on other another (unix) machine with pdfeTeX. I had no problems like this with a previous computer running Hardy Heron.
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Jan 8, 2011
I want to install Arch Linux on my desktop, it is going to be a dual boot with Windows. I booted into the installation CD, but when I started cfdisk to partition my hard drive it gave me the following error: FATAL ERROR: Primairy parititon 1, partition ends in the final partial cylinder.The QuestionHow can I troubleshoot and fix this?Additional details
These will be added if asked for.
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Aug 30, 2010
Below is a print out of my partition Table from Fdisk, in Cylinder mode, Sector mode, and then in expert mode?
Why in expert mode does it look like Partitions 2 and 3 share the same sector / hd / Cylinders? Is this OK?
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Feb 11, 2010
I've been searching for a definitive answer/solution for this. Below are outputs from fdisk -l and a partition table listing from expert mode in fdisk. [root@ncc1701 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000265ce
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 39 307200 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 39 60801 488076288 83 Linux
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Some posts that I've come across indicate no problem while others indicate that it is an issue and needs to be corrected. sda1 is my /boot partition ~ 300MB and then sda2 is a LUKS volume with a LVM VG occupying the rest of the available 500GB hdd. It is my active F 12 system with no dual boot.
1. Is it a problem? 2.Can I just resize sda1 so the end does not overlap sda2? 3. And can I do this while booted from that system or do I need to do it from a LiveCD?
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Nov 12, 2010
i was looking at the list of my /dev/sda partition and on the first partition it says that it does not end on cylinder boundary. does is it need to be fixed? on a book that im reading it says that when you create a partition the end cylinder should be the size of the partition...
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Apr 30, 2011
1) How do I align my desktop icons to a grid?
2) Is it possible to move the close, maximize, and minimize buttons to the left side of the window? I prefer that to the since I'm used to GNOME Unity.
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Mar 19, 2010
So I have the burned ubuntu CD, and I'm attempting to install it on a system that has one HDD with XP/Vista on it, and another that is completely formatted and unpartitioned. However, when I boot to the ubuntu CD, I can use the menus from the bottom, and select the language when initially prompted, but I can't select any of the menu options except for boot from first hard drive.
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Feb 22, 2011
I am preparing a dual boot system. Used gparted to do the partitioning. Unfortunately did not notice that one can choose to align on MB (default) or cyl (probably preferable) Now my setup is running ok but fdisk reports warnings like Partition 4 not on cylinder boundary
Looking up the net I see two conflicting views on this:
1. Forget it -- cylinders are not relevant on today's disks
2. For linux this is ok but windows may clobber the adjacent partition in such a 'non-aligned' partition
The real problem is that parted, gparted, fdisk etc are mutually inconsistent in what kind of partition table is 'good' and I dont know who to believe
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Feb 6, 2010
Why is it telling me that my hard drive cylinder head count isn't supported by bios when I've been using this hard drive with this bios for over a year? I mean Linux is booting off the hard drive this is supposedly unsorted apparently and managing telling me is unsupported... so it can't be that unsupported now can it? Sounds more like linux trying to blame bios for linux's problem.
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Aug 9, 2010
COmpiz does not have the option. if this is a nooby question im new 2 ubuntu
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Oct 23, 2010
I have a 64bit desktop and 64bit laptop. I upgraded both to 10.10 and they both have the same problem with compiz. Even though I selected the cylinder distortion, the rotating desktops will not deform to a cylinder unless I select "Wallpaper" in compiz but when I do that, the cylinder is completely transparent AND objects (like windows or bouncing/squishing icons in AWN appear not to refresh. Like a window will not disappear after closing.
As an aside, I have four different wallpapers selected for the four different desktops, but none of them display when I select "Wallpaper" in compiz, I just get the transparent cylinder.
If I deselect "Wallpaper" in compiz, the problem with the refresh disappears immediately, as does the transparent wallpapers but the cylinder becomes disabled and I am left with a cube with a single wallpaper and no ability to decrease opacity during rotation.
This has happened with both my desktop and laptop. I have tried uninstalling all compiz components in Synaptic Package Manager and adding them back one at a time in case I added some conflicting components but this doesn't seem to help.
I did not change settings in the updates, so I have to assume that the problem has something to do with a bug in Compiz. The two computers have different video cards and the drivers are up to date, so I'm at a loss.
Has anyone else found this problem? Has anyone been able to display the cylinder distortion with four desktops with different wallpapers?
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Jan 16, 2011
I have installed 10.04 LTS on a few computers lately (stuck at home due to recent surgery and am trying to kill some time) and have been running into some odd issues and cannot figure out what is going on. I am hoping someone can help me out here. The installation appears to work fine every time. The systems also appear to be running without any issues. The weird thing is that every time I run an fdisk -l command, I always get these types of messages:
Disk /dev/sda: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 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: 0x0005437b
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cfdisk also gives similar errors:
FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder. I am not doing anything out of the ordinary when installing Ubuntu (as far as i can tell that is). I am not pre-partitioning with external tools for example. I use the Ubuntu installer to setup my partitions.
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Aug 13, 2010
" Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by bios " I got this errot message when i tried to select Ubuntu ( 9.04 ) from a dual booting menu I dont know how to solve this problem
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Mar 7, 2011
I'm planning to partition a new hard drive to dual-boot Mint+Mepis. I've read partitioning tutorials and posts, and want to check my understanding--I'd appreciate input from an experienced person.For 500GB hard drive, dual-boot Mint+Mepis:
--Mint: / root partition for OS; /home partition for ease of upgrading
--Mepis: same as Mint
= four partitions
And:
/swap partition to be shared between Mint+Mepis
/shared partition for shared data
= two partitions
Total = six partitions
Since four primary partitions are allowed, I should use three primary partitions and one extended partition containing three logical partitions.Is that correct?If so, what should go where? I assume there's an optimal strategy--Should each /root of Mint+Mepis go in a primary? What should go in the other primary, and in the three logicals? Or maybe I don't need three primaries?--use two primaries and four logicals?
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Oct 31, 2010
I am encountering this error and do not know how to go round it. Please help on this issue.
Error creating partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_add_partition: device_file=/dev/sda, start=0, size=40007368704, type=0x0c
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=80026361856)
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