General :: Size Of Partitions If Multibooting?
Jan 28, 2010
I have a question about partition sizes when you are multibooting. I would like to know if 20GB partitions are an acceptable size. Is there anything to worry about with partitions around that size? I am not sure whether it makes sense to break it down further as some people have separate boot and/or home partitions. I guess if they are only 20GB in size, there is not much room left to divide further?
I am also wondering if it's okay to multi-boot four or five distros. Is that too many for a 160GB drive? My plan or idea was to multi-boot four or five distros until I decide which one I use the most or like best (well, best for an old notebook). My only notebook, currently, is a Thinkpad T41. Here are some specs:
Centrino Pentium M 1.6 GHz CPU
ATI Radeon Mobility FireGL 9000 video card (aka RV250) w/ 1440 x 900 LCD res
Intel 2200bg wifi card
Intel ethernet LAN
160GB Samsung IDE/ATA HDD
2GB DDR RAM
Is that sufficient for assessing my hardware specs? I know that the video card is only supported by the open source radeon driver and that the Intel wifi card requires specific firmware before it can work or operate. I am not sure which desktop window manager I should use so I was going to install a distro that has each. LXDE, xfce, Gnome, KDE
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Jul 1, 2010
I will install Slackware 13.1 on my desktop in 50 GB of disk space but I'm not sure about the proper size for the partitions "/" and "/ usr / local". I want to use most of the space for "/ home" partition, so I can keep my data when I upgrade to a newer version (right?)
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Mar 23, 2010
I'm looking to install a Linux distro on my Windows 7 machine. Could anyone suggest any tools to handle the multiboot? (I may install 2-3 distros to try out)
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Jul 25, 2010
i installed ubuntu to multiboot with windows 7 but i don't know how to remove it to where its just windows again you can't delete the partiton ecause grub comes up how do i make it go back to the way it was before i installed ubuntu
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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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Nov 22, 2010
I would like to triple partition for win7, ubuntu, and all other files-data, music, etc. And I understand this can be easily be done via the disk management feature. Obviously a 2TB HD is huge for me and I probably will never come close to filling it. I will eventually copy all my files from my old pc, but that totals about only 10GB.
My issue is what should be the actual size of the win7 and the ubuntu partitions? How many GB for win7 and how many GB for ubuntu?
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Oct 10, 2010
I just wiped my HDD and installed Windows XP (35gb Partition) and then Ubuntu 10.10 (75gb Partition ext4) and I want to know if it's possible to make my XP partition a bit smaller, like 20-25 gb, and then add what I take off to the ubuntu partition,because I won't be using xp that much, only for things that I know work on windows only.
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Jun 21, 2010
I'm trying to install Ubuntu, Windows 7, Meego, and Android x86 for a project. Here is what I have done so far: Partition the drive into 4 primary partitions of equal size (10gb each). Install Windows7, Android, and Meego onto separate partitions, in that order. Then, install Ubuntu, hoping that GRUB automatically detects the other OS's and creates entries for them. Unfortunately, the only entries in GRUB are for Ubuntu and Windows 7. How do I get to the other 2 OS's (Android and Meego) to show up?
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Aug 14, 2010
My laptop has a 60GB hard drive, which my ex-husband set up with a 20GB partition for Windows XP and a 40GB partition with Suse 11, which suited me fine at the time. However, I'm now finding that I need to install a whole bunch of extra Windows programs relating to my work, and the 20GB partition is no longer sufficient, while I'm hardly using any space at all under Linux.
how I might go about redistributing the space between the two partitions (any other solutions to my lack of space problem also welcome)? Please bear in mind that I'm pretty clueless when it comes to this kind of thing!
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Feb 11, 2010
Anyone have a script, or method, that would allow (c)fdisk to divide a hard drive up into equal size primary partitions?
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Sep 28, 2010
I have a laptop that already duel boots to Vista and XP. Is it possible to add Ubuntu to a 10 GB unused space on the hard drive?
Some more details: It came with Vista on one partition and factory backup on another. I added a partition for XP and another one for general storage. Now I have shrunk the Vista volume to make the 10 GB blank space. Vista refuses to make a new partition out of that. Ubuntu installer can't seem to use that blank space either.
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Nov 4, 2010
I am a new UBUNTU user. I had installed OS in my computer in the order of XP, Win 7, and finally UBUNTU.With EasyBCD, I managed multi-booting order of XP and Win7. That is, after choosing Win7 or UBUNTU from GRUB, (If I chose Win 7) I should choose XP or Win 7 to boot.
Using UBUNTU, I think that I do not need XP, so I formatted the hard disk where XP was installed. However, after deleting XP, I can not boot Win7 from GRUB, although there is still
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Mar 27, 2010
Noobish question on multibooting multiple Linux distros. I have four of the current major Linux distributions. Each has been installed and run individually (no other Linux distribution installed) in a dual-boot configuration with Windoze. No problem.
What I want to do is install all four Linux distributions and multiboot them. Reading the internet it would seem this is a simple task with GRUB. The short version being - install a Linux distro with a separate /boot partition for GRUB and use GRUB to boot the other Linux distros from the GRUB boot menu.
So I installed one of the Linux distros with a separate partition for /boot. The distro installer installed GRUB in /boot and correctly setup a dual-boot configuration with Windoze. GRUB was installed to the MBR. Next I installed a second Linux distro in its own root partition and told the distros installer NOT to install GRUB to the MBR, but rather, to the boot sector of the root partion of the second Linux distro. Installation was uneventful (and I could access the second Linux partition from the first installed Linux distro, things looked ok). Then I added to following to the installed (MBR - /boot) GRUB's menu.lst:
Code: title lixux distro 2
root (hd0,7)
chainloader +1 After which I rebooted the system and the new entry for the second Linux distro now appears in the GRUB boot menu. I selected the second Linux distro from the boot menu and got the following GRUB error: Error 5 : Partition table invalid or corrupt
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May 26, 2011
When we install a linux OS, we've an option to create partitions. In my laptop I've create partition for /opt, /home, / and /tmp. Are these partitions the same type of partitions as the partitions created by LVM?
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Mar 22, 2011
I used Ubuntu before, without problems but since the 10.04 version it won't recognize my partitions. I formated my laptop and partitioned it, installed Windows 7 64bit, which I need for my work, and wanted now to install Ubuntu 10.04/10. I then used GParted to check my Harddisk and it is having troubles to recognize my partitions, too while Windows finds them. GParted is giving me an error message saying my partitions are oversized. I am still in the beginning of my Linux experiences and so I don't know what to do. I have two 250GB harddisks (how Windows recognizes them),
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Jan 9, 2010
I have vista and opensuse 11.2 on my computer, the problem is i can't open ext3 partitions from vista but i can the other way. I tried Ext2fsd but the linux partition is always in a read only mood even when i change this option. Also, all folders are empty I downloaded the program as admin and compatable with XP SP2.
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Mar 3, 2010
Xubuntu 9.04 installation CD not detecting any of the current partitions. This all started when I reinstalled windows XP a few days ago.After, the computer wouldn't boot into GRUB and would boot directly into windows.Other threads have dealt with a similar issue, that of overlapping partitions causing libparted/parted/gparted to detect the whole drive as unallocated space. The problem in these threads seemed to be a corrupted partition table, in which the partitions overlapped with each other. So of course I checked the output of fdisk -l for overlapping partitions, but I don't see any obvious overlapping partitions. I've noticed that the partition that used to be linux swap isn't showing up in the partition table at all. I might just be missing something simple here and would like another set of eyes to help me figure this one out. Does the problem have anything to do with the partition table being out of order (ie. not in order of what regions they cover on the drive)? From the liveCD I've run
Code:
sudo fdisk -lu
sudo sfdisk -d
sudo parted /dev/sda print
and have received the following output:
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt$ sudo fdisk -lu
omitting empty partition (5)
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
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Mar 28, 2010
I've installed Arch Linux onto my Western Digital SATA drive.I love it, best ever, however, I need the fglrx proprietry driver for better 3-d performace, and decided to create a new partition. I decided to install Linux Mint.Sadly, in all my noobishness, I forgot about the 4 primary partition limit (oops!) and as I have /, /home, swap, and /boot partitions (all primary) already installed, I have run into a bit of a problem.I resized my /home partition (almost 500GB) to about 225, and was then told I have over 200GB unusable space. Is it possible for me to change at least 1 of my primary partitions to logical partitions AND keep all the data intact (AND edit the arch configuration so that it'll still work) so I can install a second linux? I sincerely doubt it
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Feb 9, 2011
I am installing Ubuntu on the same hard drive as Windows 7. The partitions of Windows 7 have already occupied the left part of the hard drive. From left to right, the Windows partitions are one partition for Windows booting, one for Windows OS and software installation, and one for data which is planned to mount on Ubuntu. I was wondering how to arrange the order of partitions of root, home and swap, i.e. which is on the left just besides one Windows partition, which is in the middle and which is on the far right?
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Mar 17, 2011
a client brought in an 160GB external HDD and wanted to get the files off it, there appeared to be no partitions on the disk but i thought it may have been formatted to use the whole disk. I tried to mount it as the various FS types the client thought it may have been to no avail.
I ran testdisk on it which told me that it previously had a mac partition table and a 210GB partition on it (which is larger than the disk) could anyone enlighten me as to whether or not this is even possible, and if so how could i retrieve the data?
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Nov 12, 2010
Ubuntu 10.04, xsane 0.996, Brother MFC 240c scanner.I just finished writing a long dissertation on my problem with this scanning environment (which I will spare you). In a nutshell the resulting image, when printed, is smaller than the original document. In writing my dissertation for this post I determined that the cause of the issue is that xsane believes I am scanning an 8.5 x 14 inch document when I am in fact scanning an 8.5 x 11 letter. So the question is... can I change the size to 8.5 x 11? and if so, how? I have not found anything in the xsane Preferences.
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Apr 11, 2011
I have problem with XEN Citrix server I can not understand ; what is sda2 and sda3 partitions ?
Code:
root@cl-500 ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000407625728 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1907737 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
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Oct 22, 2015
today I upgraded via official testing repository Gnome to version 3.18. After this, icons on desktop and nautilus are bigger, than before. Next thing, gaps between icons are smaller than before. I tried change theme to default (Adwaita), then run gtk-update-icon-cache, but without result.
Normal view - icons are big for this view. URL....
Small view - icons are still big for this view. URL...
How can I change icons size and gaps size? Or is it bug for this version?
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Jan 19, 2011
is lvresize with --resizefs options re-size the Logical Volume and then re-size the file system? i mean we don't need to use resize2fs?I looked at man pages but it doesn't explain this option.
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Jun 8, 2011
Have just installed Lexmark s605 printer on wireless network, printer works ok but when i print a document even though it is showing the correct size on 'print preview', the printed output is on the page is tiny and and 90deg rotated, I've tried various drivers from the Lexmark website, and also messing about in printer settings but nothing seems to make any difference.
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Dec 14, 2010
How can we find the maximum size of the inode table and what decides it, and how the maximum size of volume of file system is decided ?
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Jan 1, 2010
I went to scale the partitions on this computer with gparted on a live CD one day. I left it overnight and rebooted the computer after my changing of the resolution borked my display. Somehow this messed things up. See here:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
omitting empty partition (5)
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
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May 2, 2011
I have 250 Gig HDD on a Asus Netbook. My Question is this:
I want to be able to have 1-2 Distros 1 Swap File of about 5-6 Gig (I have 2 Gig Ram) An area for all my files so that I don't have to keep re-installing them of my eternal hdd's.
What is your opinion and how should I set it up.
Am I best using xfce and which distro would run the best and fastest.
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Jun 7, 2010
I'm trying to learn about partitions and LVM although I'm still getting my head around it. I've set up my RHEL test server (has single 80GB disk) with LVM. As I understand it, it goes like this: -
Setup up several partitions for this, in this case hda5 - 7. hda1 is my boot partition which has to be on primary. hda2 is a regular 10GB primary partition that holds the OS and hda3 is the swap partition. hda4 is the extended partition which houses hda5 to 7. They're 5GB each. I assume I cannot access partition 4 directly as it's simply the holder for the logical partitions?
So I've set hda5 - 7 partitions with type '8e' (LVM). I then created a Volume Group called VolGroup01 and since the drive is only 80GB, stick with the default Physical Extent size of 4MB. I assign this Volume Group to /dev/hda5 (why does a Volume Group as an abstraction have to be assigned a partition?).
I then create a Logical Volume called LogVol01 of 500MB and assign it to the new VolGroup01. I format this with ext3 and created a /etc/fstab entry to automount it. First I tried to use /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol01 as this seemed logical but this threw me into maintenance mode and I had to remount the drive as read-write to change the fstab Why do I have to use /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol01 instead? Doesn't seem very consistent.
So I assume I can add as many Logical Volumes as I like, presumably across any of the partitions I've created with type '8e'. But I'm uncertain about the relationship between the various parts. Creating a Volume Group I get as it's a virtual holder for the partitions that I can add across many disks. So are Logical Volumes an abstraction of partitions? Since partitions themselves can be any size, why have added functionality to size Logical Volumes as well? Not sure I get that part.
Now I need to learn how to either resize the current Logical Volume or add more
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Feb 4, 2010
im using this command to duplicate a partition:
Code:
$ dd if=/dev/hda bs=4k | tee hda.img | shasum
After executing it, a long number is showed.
Now, how can i know the two partitions are the same?
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