Ubuntu Installation :: Unable To Copy / Save File In Extended Partition
Feb 3, 2010
I recently installed Jaunty in my departmental machine which is having 70 GB harddisk and 512 MB RAM. Before installing I partitioned the Hard disk by using Gparted of Live CD into Four compartments namely
1. Primary partition of 30 GB of file type ext3
2. Extended partition of 39 GB which I divided again into two logical Partition of 20 GB and 19 GB. Labelled it as D and E
3. 1 GB of swap partition
I installed the Jaunty in primary partition, gave the mount point as /The problem is I am not able to copy or save file in the extended partition namely D and E
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May 12, 2011
I am not really sure if the title makes any sense or if it even possible. Basically I am currently triple booting with Mac osx on the first partition windows 7 on the second and ubuntu linux on the 3rd with a swap partition. So basically on my 2TB harddrive
Mac (200gb)
Windows (200gb)
Linux (200gb)
Swap (8gb)
NTFS(1592gb)
The last partition is formatted as ntfs using Gparted, windows cannot detect it. The windows disk partitioner shows the swap and ntfs partitions as unformatted. I can unformat the space and use the windows partition to add format it as ntfs but it would format the linux swap partition as well. I am worried that it could potentially screw up everything on my harddrive. My question is. What do I need to do to get the ntfs parition recognized by windows (should I use the windows partitioner)?
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Mar 22, 2011
Now i install the Ubuntu 10.4 64 bit on Sunfire X4170I want to save the file via SSH to this server.But i m not sure how to configure.
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Mar 21, 2010
After update to 10.04 I am not longer asked to authenticate when attempting to run "root" priv. apps in System->Administration Just get the error: Quote: Failed to run /usr/sbin/whatever-application as user root. Unable to copy the user's Xauthorization file. Google searches have been in vain. All apps still run if ran from terminal w/ sudo command.
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May 17, 2010
I want to copy location of every .avi , .jpg file present in a folder or in subfolder present in a direcotry and save in a textfile how to doex : /home/username/Desktop/bookofeli/video/book.aviit should give full locaiton of path how to do
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Oct 26, 2010
I have been attempting to set up a bunch of partitions on a bunch of hard disks, in preparation for installing Maverick. I will be setting up a number of RAID partitions, so I will install from the alternate disk (ubuntu-10.10-alternate-amd64.iso). Now ever since they added support for GRUB2 and a new partition type and align-to-megabyte and a whole bunch of other goodness, partitioning has been buggy. This has been true for Maverick and Lucid. Even the 10.04.1 version (an Ubuntu LTS!) still has problems. Every time I try something else, some other bizarre bug rears its ugly head. (Yes, I have been reporting them on Launchpad when I find a new one.)
In order to move forward on this project, I have been using a variety of partitioning tools. I temporarily installed Maverick on a small partition, and have used Disk Utility (palimpsest) and GParted while booted into that. Occasionally when things get really strange I boot up the latest version of System Rescue Disk, which contains the latest version of gparted. I use these various tools to try out various partitioning schemes, just laying out empty partitions that will be formatted or assembled into RAID arrays later. When I get all the desired partitions set up, I will boot into the alternate installer and do the final installation. (I don't want to do the entire thing within the alternate installer because it makes my head hurt. I do have a lot of partitions.) This has been going on for weeks now. Every time I try something different, something weird happens, and I have to try various workarounds, or switch to different tools. Basically, my partitions eventually become unstable.
Here's the latest mind boggler: Disk Utility displays nice graphical maps of your partitions. This image includes before and after screenshots showing what happens to my partitions occasionally. We start with three primary partitions and one extended partition. The extended partition goes all the way to the end of the disk. We put a small logical partition into the extended partition, at the beginning of it. We can then click on the "free" portion of the extended partition and create additional logical partitions if we like.
Afterwards, the extended partition has magically shrunk itself down until it is the same size as the small logical partition it contains. The free space has migrated out of the extended partition, and is now useless, as you can't have more than four primary+extended partitions. Disk Utility won't let you create another partition. What happened between the Before and After pictures? I don't know. I do know that I did not ever tell any tool to change the size of any partition. Moving or resizing partitions can trigger various known bugs, so I never even try to do that, I just delete partitions and start over.
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Oct 31, 2010
I've installed Windows 7 + XP + Ubuntu 10.10 and Mac Os X on my PC. The problem is that XP wont boot. I've tried a lot of fixes for the last 2 days but still nothing. So I've come to conclusion that it might be probably due to its partition (dev/sda being inside of another Extended partition (dev/sda3) as you guys can see on the attachment. If so, how can I move it out of the extended partition.
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Apr 8, 2011
I have Ubuntu 10.10 installed on my 80gb hdd, disk has following partitions :
1. /dev/sda1 = /boot (500mb)
2. /dev/sda2 = / (20000mb)
3. /dev/sda3 = linux-swap (2000mb)
4. /dev/sda4 = extended (7000mb)
5. /dev/sda5 = /home (7000mb)
6. unallocated = (40000mb)
how can i use this unallocated space to create an NTFS partition.
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May 27, 2011
just got a new laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit pre-installed, and when I boot into my 11.04 CD, there is no simple option to install alongside windows 7. Only the options to erase the entire disk (wiping windows) or manually specifying partitions. I'd like to keep my windows install as I use it for gaming, but I don't want to mess around with partitions while I don't know what I'm doing. According to the 'Allocate disk space' part of the installation, all 4 primary partitions are being used, a main one for the Windows 7 install, one entitled HP tools, and another two I forget the names of. I have looked up that I may need to turn a primary partition into an extended one,
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Aug 3, 2010
how to create extended ext3 partition using GParted? Every time I select "New" for unallocated space I can only create primary partition. Other options (extended and logical) are always greyed out.
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May 27, 2011
I installed Debian stable and I see these errors in the xsession error file
/etc/gdm3/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
GNOMEKEYRINGCONTROL=/tmp/keyring-j0E6Br
SSHAUTHSOCK=/tmp/keyring-j0E6Br/ssh
GNOMEKEYRINGCONTROL=/tmp/keyring-j0E6Br
[code]....
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Mar 31, 2011
I bought a PC with Window Vista on it as my partner needs it. Using gparted I set up Primary partitions for Vista OS (sda1) and Ubuntu OS (sda2), plus an extended partition for Vista files, Ubuntu /home and swap:
fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3969 31880961 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3970 5294 10643062+ 83 Linux
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My problem is Vista (as always). The 30GB I allocated is not enough, even just for the OS and it won't now boot from GRUB, though I can see it from GRUB. I don't want to do anything that risks a problem for Ubuntu. Will grub still see both OS if I wipe sda1 (Vista OS) and reinstall Vista OS on the extended partition sda6? Ideally I would like to merge sda1 with sda6 and install Vista on that, but that looks way too risky / impossible.
Edit - There is another drive on the PC which is much larger and I use for backup. Is there any scope for installing Vista on that one so that GRUB still identifies both. Not ideal as I like having one as the backup for the other.
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Jan 9, 2011
I successfully partitioned my desktop with Gparted and made it into an XP/Ubuntu dual boot.
Now i'm trying to do the same with my netbook (eee pc 1000he), and the existing partitions look funny:
How should I change this to prepare for installing Ubuntu? Can I just install to the unallocated space on the extended partition? I don't need optimal efficiency here, I just need to know where to install Ubuntu for a workable dual boot.
It's confusing to me that Windows is on an extended partition, and also that /dev/sda2 has the boot flag (this drive contains nothing but two undeletable folders titled "amd 64" and "i386"). This set-up is the result of a Windows re-install at a sketchy computer shop.
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Apr 16, 2010
if I can grab a copy of the Lucid packages that my laptop's downloading and dump them into a directory on the desktop computer, then upgrade the desktop in a way it makes use of the packages it wants and that I have to hand already.
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Feb 1, 2010
I want to move my swap file onto a new extended hard drive.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1243 9984366 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1244 1305 498015 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1244 1305 497983+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I want to put a 2Gb swap file on sda2.
> dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/mnt/2Gb.swap bs=1M count=2048
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
1024 bytes (1.0 kB) copied, 0.000388458 s, 2.6 MB/s
Why is this only copying 1.0kB? Do I need to format the extended drive first? I have tried specifying the block size and count a number of different ways with the same results.
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Oct 10, 2010
I mount a partition to a directory and ls -liah tells me that everyone has read/write/execute permissions on the whole thing, but I try to save a file into the partition and I get an access denied error. First of all this doesn't make sense because ls is telling me I do have access.
Then it gets weirder. I run sudo chown -R me:me directory. The command exits without error, but then when I go and look at the directory again with ls, it still shows up as owned by root and I still have the same problem. This is particularly strange because I am still able to change permissions normally in the operating system filesystem. It just won't work on the mounted partition.
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Mar 13, 2011
I formatted a 16GB USB flash drive via right click. Then I ran gparted and got as far as this [image attached]
Do I choose Primary Partition or Extended Partition for this second partition?
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Nov 29, 2010
Around 2008 i seem to remember PartEd on the command-line was able to rescue deleted partitions and gave a choice of whether to recover the partition as a Primary or Logical Partition. I have tried testdisk but didn't really grok what i was doing. I successfully moved a "Windows Recovery" partition to the end of my hard-drive, immediately after the drive's Extended Partition.
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Jun 2, 2010
extended sata partition shrunk at 15 partition limit, how to re-enlarge i hit the 15 partition limit, forgetting it now exists for sata drives, thinking i would add more. upon creation of the 15th, it squished the end of the extended partition to meet the last logical partition, leaving a large unallocated portion after the extended partition, which seemingly nothing can be done with, just sat being wasted space. i have since deleted a few of those partitions, but so far have still failed to find a way to recoup the unallocated space back into the extended partition.
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if necessary, i'll do it the painful long winded way of backing up and starting the extended partition again from scratch, but i really rather wouldnt have to do that. i'm sure there must be a way of telling the extended partition to once again reach the end of the drive.
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May 4, 2011
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Most simple guides recommend use of dd to copy the whole partition byte by byte.
I'm moving to the new drive because I don't have enough space on the old drive, so I don't want to simply clone the partition. Instead I need the destination partition to be bigger. Would dd work well in that case?
Assuming that I use same partition types on the new drive, would I be able to use simple cp with appropriate settings?
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Mar 17, 2011
i have been a user of ubuntu 10.4 for the past year them the partiton crashed and then i recovered and got a new machine then got ubuntu 10.10, Iam VERY HAPPY USING UBUNTU,,,AND BIG THANK U TO ALL WHO ARE CONNECTED
NOW THE PROBLEM i have a copy paste problem of my video files from downloads folder to the other partiton and the error says INPUT/OUTPUT error, now after googling an awful lot as per my searching skills,,,i havent received any any answer that solved my problem,,,i am helpless pls help me solve this
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Jan 29, 2011
I want to convert a vfat partition into an ext4 partition. This is on my wife's machine and she deleted the Windoze partition as she now prefers Linux. Here is the (edited) output from fdisk -l:-
/dev/sda2 514048 4708351 2097152 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 4708352 6805503 1048576 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda4 52693200 234436544 90871672+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 59006800 234227699 87610446 83 Linux
I want to change /dev/sda4 to 83 to free up space for Linux without losing the partitions in this 'extended' partition!
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May 18, 2010
I've got a server that needs more space. To achieve this we added space (by extending the VMware disk attached to it).Normally this isn't an issue, because we just add an new partition and LVM it from there, but this host predates our deployment of LVM everywhere.
Our current theory is that the unallocated sectors can not be assigned because they aren't part of the extended partition, and thus ... we go in a circle.So what i believe the way forward is to extend sda4 so that i can then create an sda10 inside of it. Anyone have any ideas on how to do this? I was thinking gparted may do the trick ... but being a server i'm in runlevel3, with no X...
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Jun 13, 2011
I would like to create Logical partition in Extended partition using fdisk in Fedora 14 I created extended but fail to create logical partition.
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Nov 30, 2010
I've got a windows partition with a lot of free space followed by an extended partition. The extended partition has three sub-partitions: grub/boot&everything else, home, swap.
I'd like to take some of the free space out of the NTFS partition and move it down into the extended partition for Ubuntu to use.
I've successfully shrunken the NTFS partition. Now I've got 5gb of unallocated space between the end of NTFS an start of the extended partitions.
Now I want to extend the boot/everything else sub-partition within the extended sub-partition.
Using the gParted live CD I'm:Resizing the extended partition (growing it forward by 5gb)
Resizing the boot/everything sub-partition forward by 5b
When I try to apply the changes I get an error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
Is it possible to move this space into my extended partitions so Ubuntu has more space?
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Feb 19, 2011
I can't seem to be able to save a file properly with java on the sheevaplug (ubuntu)
Here's my test-code:
Code:
try {
File f = new File("test.txt");
System.out.println(f.exists());
[Code]....
it seems to save the file, but nothing that is readable in ubuntu.
I'm using the openjdk-6-jre package by the way.
EDIT: NVM! Forgot to cd into the directory holding the jar before running, so it was working but it was saving to the $HOME dir...
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Sep 2, 2010
I have to copy file from download folder to /usr/bin. when i right click on it and select copy option and in /usr/bin the paste option is not coming.
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Jan 13, 2010
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Jul 6, 2011
Prior to making a fresh install of 10.04, I made a back up of all my documents by copying them to a NTFS partition. I did this my selecting files in File Browser, then right clicking and selecting the Copy command.
When I came to move the files back after the fresh install, I was mortified to find that all the file modification dates had changed to the date I copied them! I've lost all the original file dates, which was the principal way I sorted my files. I guess there's no way of getting it back? It seems that Linux does not store File Creation dates either so I'm stuffed.
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