Is there any way to partition off say 40GB of a 250GB drive (only 5GB used) into an NTFS partition to install windows Vista SP1?? I have tried the System -> administration -> disk utility, but I can not figure out how to partition in it.
View 7 RepliesIve got two partitions of xubuntu installed and I only want one. Is there I way I can just delete the one i dont want and use that extra space for the other?
also, how would i know which is which when deleting?
Something went wrong during my upgrade, and i was unable to boot. What I did to save the day was to install Lucid parallel (on an other partition). Now I just want to double-check before I mess up again - I've backup-ed all the stuff i wanna keep and want to format the old partition. preferably I'd like to extend my current partition to the whole drive (or just make an empty partition for media if that works). So how do I do this the easiest way, and what would be the best option (i.e. 1 or 2 partts.)?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI made a new partition on my hard drive, and installed Windows XP on it. However, because of space shortage on the disc (didn't bring my external HDD's with me) I could not "afford" to make the partition bigger than about 7GB. Turns out that's not quite enough. So I thought I'd try to resize the partition. Booted from my Ubuntu LiveCD and entered the partition manager. I'm able to tell the program that I want to resize the Linux-partition (so it sets the now freed space as "unused", but when I chose to "resize/move" on the XP-partition I do not have any free space. Does this mean that I have to resize the Linux-partition (until now I didn't actually resize it, only set the job as "pending" hoping that I could select both to shrink the Linux-partition and extend the XP-partition in one session), or do I have to format the XP-partition and make a new one (larger this time), then reinstall XP?
/dev/sda1 is XP; /dev/sda2 is Linux Mint
I have created one partition. Now I want to extend that partition without formatting it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am using CentOS 5.4 dvd to install. What I need is to be able to create a partition with GUI (it's druid, maybe) without formatting it. I remeber once there was a check into creating new partition form, but maybe i am confusing with fedora or other distros. Is there a way to complete job using GUI or should i create partitions: / /boot and swap with GUI and the others with fdsik?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI didn't know how to Make a cd image out of the Ubuntu iso so I made a seperate partition in my drive.Now I'm wondering how to delete the windows partition without formatting the whole hard drive.how to create a bootable cd image
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 on a brand new 500GB hard drive I just purchased and installed in my machine. I boot from the CD and instruct Ubuntu to install to this drive and tell it to "erase and use the entire disk" for this 500GB drive. After moving forward from that, I see it saying a message about creating an ext4 partition for root "/" and then shortly after the entire install dialogue goes away. All I am left with is the little circle cursors spinning round (mouse input still works) and the installation background. The HDD activity light was still on though. I gave it about 3 hours before I finally gave up and tried again.
When I tried again, I saw that it did create two partitions (root and swap) during the last attempt. The same thing happened, although now even mouse input isn't responding so my system is completely locked up. HDD activity remains active this time as well. Running Ubuntu from the CD works fine. The only problem I saw with it was when I ran gparted from the CD and tried to manually create a ext3 partition on my new disk drive. When I tried that, I ran into a similar occurrence (couldn't run any programs, eventually system locked up) and had to reboot.
I have a second hard disk but I have a lot of valuable data on that and don't want to mess around with it. It could be a hardware failure, but that seems unlikely to me as this is a brand new Seagate disk drive. I suppose I could try installing it on a spare partition on my other drive and see what happens, but other than that I'm out of ideas.
How can I change the label of one partition on linux without formatting it.
It wll format the partition, and all content disappears.
I formatted 56 GBs of my hard disk space into fat32 and it seems that 27 gbs of it is used! Though direct checking from the volume itself shows nothing like this, gparted still insists 27 gbs are used.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSometimes it does this and other times it does not. It has happened with 2 hard drives. When it formats the partition the bar stops and the mouse pointer graphics stops.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to install Fedora KDE spin on an existing XFS partition without formatting it. (Since said partition is full of my data that I have nowhere else to put). But the installer doesn't allow me to set the partition as / without formatting. XFS is not one of the filesystems listed as options for formatting. How can I make Fedora do what I want?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm a big fan of the NSLU2-Linux project so I've been doing some developments for this platform for the last three years. In order for the end users to test my applications, I initially created an USB image with everything bundled into it. Then, they only had to download the image and decompress (dd) it into an USB pendrive with capacity equal or greater than 4 GB. The fact is that this has brought me lots of problems in the practice since my Web server hardly accepts long file transfers.
Moreover, flash spaces beyond 4GB are wasted. As result, I'm now considering a different approach as I don't know how to do it. Well, I've thought that I could maybe create an USB disk image only with the root file system partition. Then, the first time a script runs, it creates a home partition and formats it into the rest of the space available in the pendrive. There is maybe some command-line alternative to fdisk without having the user to interact during the format process... ??
Tried to install Jessie RC1,but installer hangs on formatting the partition,at 33%.
View 7 Replies View RelatedSo I recently installed openSUSE KDE (latest build, don't know the number?). total linux noob, been a windows user all my life. right now i'm dual-booting between win 7 and opensuse KDE. i originally alotted for a parsley 10gb only to use as a backup whenever my windows inevitably starts having problems and i have no access or means to repair it/ use as a secure place to scan my windows partition and external drives for viruses. i want to expand my opensuse partition.
so my problem is this: i have a 200gb windows partition, a 15 gb partition (U) i set up to do file swapping cross-os (which i couldnt figure out how to work, btw. formatted it in FAT32). and my 10 gb suse partition (O). i tried using the built-in KDE partition manager to shrink or completely do away with U, and expand the suse partition. the problem is my suse partition is ecapsulated by an extended partition, whatever that is, and suse has its own 1.5 gb "swap" partition. after shrinking U i tried expanding O, but it said i was already at max size. tried expanding extended, also didnt work, same goes for the 1.5 gb suse swap partition.
i read in another post that i could do the resizing via some sort of bootable disc, the only problem is that i have no access to cd or dvd blanks, and i have no usb thumb drives just 2 external hd's - 1tb and 250gb. so how can i go about expanding my opensuse partition? the easiest way i could think of is to just reformat/repartition from windows, and reinstall opensuse from my boot dvd. only problem with that is i cant SEE my suse partition from windows...
i imagine i could also just boot from the dvd and run the installer again, and use the partitioner built into the installer, but i didn't really feel comfortable with it the first time around. im know my way around a computer but all of a sudden it blindsided me with a ton of options i know nothing about, it was a little too complicated.
i want to extend my existing partition size,but it should do it without formatting my operating system.i don't have the solution.Is this possible?if possiblsolution.hope somebody should give the answer
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've a flash drive that it's partitions formatted as fat32, ex4 and encrypted ext4. It works fine on the system that I've formatted it on, but when I try to use it on my other Linux distributions I get these problems:
* ext4 partition accessible by root only.
* after entering my pass-phrase I get
Code: /dev/mapper/udisks-luks-uuid-***** uid1000 is mounted What I'm asking for is a way to create the ext4 file system without being attached to some UID and to be accessible by any user.
A week ago I started a thread on Hardware & Laptops asking for help in formatting a USB stick.
Here is the thread:
[URL]
Before I toss away the 2GB stick, maybe somebody has some thoughts .
If Open Office had any problems saving in different file formats than the open format (which I know it doesn't have problems with) and rtf (which I know it does). I have to use it for school and I do not want to lose things like bullets, numbering and especially not information when saving in Microsoft Word formats.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI use this tool on windows [URL] for low level formatting hard drives. I have been looking for a tool like this for ubuntu but having now luck. I read on another thread that I can use this command - sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx. Will that work aswell? if so is there a front-end available for it?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've run into something odd:
Code:
jdougher jdougher> cd
jdougher jdougher> echo $PS1
u W>
jdougher jdougher>
For some reason, rather than replacing $HOME with "~", my prompt just displays the name of my home directory.
I'm having problem in formatting the newly added hard drive to my Ubuntu 64 bit server, is there any explanation why I got stuck to this error ?
Code:
root@isuzu:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 21.5 GB, 21474836480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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Lucid on a T101MT ASUS tablet netbook.Open Office 3.2For whatever reason standard xp/2000 format word doc's and even odt files often loose bits of formatting when I open them. I'm referring specifically to documents I've downloaded; this phenomenon doesn't apply to documents I've produced. What's going on, how do I fix this?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am simply fed up of using OpenOffice word processor. It's formatting and bullets and numbering system is a total chaos. Even when manually typing the numbers the OpenOffice word processor tries to be clever and "detects" that I'm trying to bullet my points and then mangle all the formatting again.Microsoft word was much better, I've been using it for many years and never faced such a silly problem. I think I'll switch back to windows just because of MS Word -- it had more features, looked better and nesting paragraphs is easy.
View 1 Replies View RelatedCan i dual-boot OS without formatting:
1. Install a trial windows server 2008 standard
2. Next install Ubuntu 11.04
After my trial windows server expired, will use Ubuntu 11.04 as main OS without formatting my entire hard disk. Will this work as i have only 1 sata hard disk?
I'm seeing sustained disk writes of about 2 MB/s in the indicator-multiload indicator in Unity. I determined that it is writes on my 500GB HDD on /dev/sdb. This behaviour started after I used Gparted to create a single 500GB ext4 partition and also selected that it should be formatted to ext4 in Gparted.
Is this usual? It also survived a reboot.. I assume that it is the full formatting taking place in the background?
I saw no activity using pidstat or iotop. Only using vmstat -d revealed the writes.
I have an external USB drive that I want to format but I can't find a Linux utility to do this. I would also like to quickly and easily format USB zip drives too. The ability to format in FAT, NTFS or EXT? would be good as well. GParted seems like overkill.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow do I, in Ubuntu, determine what the formatting (e.g FAT etc.) of an SD card is?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am in 9.10 LiveCD , low-level formatting an HD from another computer, but when i did# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 dd does something , but at 413 MB stops
root@ubuntu:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1
dd: writing to `/dev/sda1': Input/output error
806433+0 records in
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Does anyone know of a application that will use plain text, but allows the customizatino of width and lenth of the number of characters?
Looking to set my footprint to be 78 characters wide (by) 59 characters high.