Ubuntu :: Run Without USB Drive & Where To Put Partition
Jan 7, 2010
When starting up my dell mini 9 it will freeze at the loading screen and about 2 min later it will say that the there is basically no operating system. Someone on here told me to reinstall Ubuntu so installed it to a USB and while trying to install I would get stuck on the partition page. There would be no option to select a partition or even to create one. So i quit the installation and manually created a partition through gparted.
Im not sure if I am mounting the partitions in the right place but I need help and can someone let me know what type of partitions do i need, where to mount them. I dont know exactly what i did but i would run 2 USB's with Ubuntu on them at one time. One will run the Ubuntu and one I was trying to create a partition. I think I would be doing the right thing at the partition page it will let me install ubuntu but its not saving to the computer because when i take the USB out UBUNTU will not work. who to install ubuntu so that i dont have to use the USB.
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Jan 18, 2010
So I tried adding a new, 2nd hard drive to my Ubuntu 9.04 desktop for some additional storage and only managed to kill my system so that it won't boot up anymore (I just get a blinking cursor after the BIOS does its thing).I could sure use a little help getting back to a functioning system, and then adding the second drive. I tried following the instructions from this link to add the 2nd drive:
(So the forum rules won't let me post the link, neato. Here it is with spaces added):
h t t p s : / / h e l p . u b u n t u . c o m / c o m m u n i t y / I n s t a l l i n g A N e w H a r d D r i v e
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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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Jun 22, 2011
I installed Redhat Enterprise 3 on one of my servers. In my haste I didn't properly partition both Hard Drives and only properly partitioned one of them. Thus now I have
/dev/sdb1 478711768 137858256 316536328 31% /
/dev/sda1 101089 15346 80524 17% /boot
Where /dev/sda1 is actually a 80 GB hard drive. Is there anyway I can safely and easily repartition the unpartitioned space without causing a huge mess? I have a very important Oracle database on /dev/sdb1 and thus I want to be able to back it up on the second disk. I can create a partition on that drive?
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Jan 26, 2011
I have tried to automate the configuration of a usb drive with not much success.
The problem that I have is that I have a large amount of usb drives that have a partition table of type "loop" and I need to change them to "msdos". The size of the drives vary and I need to use FAT32 or FAT16 file system.
I've tried various partitioning commands and gui applications but cant find one that I can give a one line command to to set the partition table, maximum partition size and file system.
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Mar 23, 2010
I am trying to move a whole bunch of files from one partition on one hard drive to the same partition on another hard drive. Can I mount the same partition (same name, different drives, i.e. /data on /dev/hda1 and /data on /dev/hdb1)and copy those files? Shutdown the server, take out /dev/hda1 and boot up with the new drive and it's /data contents.
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Jan 7, 2011
I have about 128 GiB of unallocated space on /dev/sdb (which is a physical hard drive). I want to take 60 GiB of this space and add it to an lvm2 partition of /dev/sda.
#1. Is there a way to have a partition span two drives? If so, please explain.
#2. LVM2 IS NOT SUPPORTED BY GPARTED. DON'T ASK.
#3. If the answer to question 1 is yes, is is easy (or possible) to do it to an lvm2 partition?
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May 10, 2010
I need to expand one logical volume which is now in 99% utilization. The volume group only have 5GB and they need 25GB more so that I can add 30GB. The disks will be coming from SAN Storage. If the SAN Admin can successfully add the disks to the server and I can see it, should I still partition it and change the type to Linux LVM?
I have tried just doing a pvcreate without partitioning and do a vgextend and it works without actually partitioning the disks. But when I do "fdisk -l", it actually shows that the disk don't have partition.
Whether I need to partition the drive to 8e (Linux LVM) before doing? Which one is better? Below are my steps and please let me know if this the correct one.
Here's my steps:
1.) dmesg | grep sd (to check the newly added disks)
2.) fdisk /dev/sdx (create primary partition and assign Linux LVM to type)
3.) pvcreate /dev/sdx
4.) vgextend VolumeName /dev/sdx
5.) lvextend -L+30G Volume01 /dev/Volume01/lv01
6.) umount /dev/Volume01/lv01
7.) resize2fs /dev/Volume01/lv01
8.) mount /dev/Volume01/lv01 /lv01
9.) df -h (check if resized successfully)
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Aug 2, 2010
Installed Ubuntu 9.1 karmic koala in a dualboot with Windows XP to remove a virus from the windows drive. I think the virus was found but somehow I have done something to cause a invalid drive error message at startup. I read that gparted may by a way to fix this, but I don't want to do anymore damage.
This is what is displayed when I start Gparted /home/ubuntu/Desktop/Screenshot--dev-sda - GParted.png [IMG]file:///tmp/moz-screenshot.png[/IMG][IMG]file:///tmp/moz-screenshot-1.png[/IMG]
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Mar 16, 2010
My parents bought a new hard drive for a laptop that I've owned for several years. It's much larger than the current one, so I plan on splitting it up to dual boot it with Ubuntu.I have no problem with partitioning a drive (I always keep a LiveCD handy), but my question is this: how can I go about moving the existing partition to the new drive? This is a laptop, so I can't simply plug the new drive into another slot.
Also, even if I manage to move it, will Windows still work on the new drive in a larger partition? I've had this laptop for quite a while, and I've lost the recovery discs that came with it a long time ago. I also have a lot of software without CDs to reinstall them with. This makes not reinstalling Windows a high priority.
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Jan 1, 2010
i made a 10gb partition last time i had linux installed on my netbook. im trying to install ubuntu nbr on that partition when i try to select the 10gb partition(comes up as free space) it says "No root file system is defined please correct this from the partitioning menu" ? I dont get it last time i installed it i had the option to resise my windows partition thats how i made it.
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Feb 27, 2010
I've been trying to partition my USB pen drive but for some reason it won't make a partition any bigger than 1 gig. The reason I formatted it was for compatibility with a friends Windows computer that wouldn't recognise it while it was NTFS (so I tried FAT16, but it still wouldn't recognise it for some strange reason.)
Anyway, after partitioning it to FAT, I partitioned it back to NTFS and shortly after tried to put Ubuntu onto it using unetbootin. During the writing process, Ubuntu locked up and I had to hard reset. (even the reisub trick did nothing) After restarting, I noticed the pen drive was showing as only 1gb big.
I don't really know if the crash caused it, because it might have been 1gb after I had reformatted to NTFS (I just didn't check).
I've since reformatted and repartitioned it using ext3/4, ntfs, FAT and it's the same every time. Also, I've tried to use unetbootin again on the 1gig partition, and it will work, but if I try to boot up off it on my netbook, it says "Missing operating system" and then boots off the hard drive.
Lastly, when I do format it, there doesn't seem to be any kind of permissions on the pen drive until I run chown on it. Then I can write to it normally.
This is a really strange problem.. I'm almost inclined to think the pen drive might just be broken and I'll need to take it back to the shop. (Withdrawing any information about the whole repartitioning it..)
I'm using gparted on 9.10 if it's relevant.
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Jul 8, 2010
I'm trying to format/repartition a 250 gig external Seagate drive. I get the following error:
Code:
Error creating partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_add_partition: device_file=/dev/sdc, start=32256, size=250056705024, type=0x83
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=250059350016)
MSDOS_MAGIC found
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Oct 26, 2010
I have created startup disk on my external USB HDD (on /dev/sdb1), I have been using it for some time, installed lots of software etc.Now I would like to install it properly onto the same HDD. I have partitioned the rest of the drive (formatted /dev/sdb2 as ext4 for it), but when I try to install, the installer complains about needing to unmount /dev/cdrom (which is in fact a loopback image on /dev/sdb1), although I don't want to touch that partition (even unchecked grub option).
So, couple of questions:
1) How to install it onto the same USB HDD, different partition?
2) (optional) How to preserve everything I have installed?
Code:
$ mount
aufs on / type aufs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
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Jan 3, 2010
I have a new 1.5tb internal drive I want to partition as NTFS (because Windoze machines need to see/use it) and in gparted, when I go to partition -> new, it says it could not add this operation to the list a partition cannot have a length of -1 sectors. I recall having this issue on my 2tb external drive and I ended up creating the NTFS parition on a Windoze machine and then bringing it to the Linux box but since this is an internal drive, that's not an option. I took all the defaults in the "Create new partition" screen.
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Feb 18, 2010
i have a laptop with windows 7 and its 64 bit and its got 1 had drive which is 300gb and i got 250gb of free space so when i try to partion it i partion my drive. i right click my hard drive which has 280gb free space and click on shrink and then selcte 20gb then go to unaclocated space and then click new voloume then i click next a couple of times and then i get this eppro.
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Mar 27, 2010
I've got a problem I've been trying to work out for a while. I have a 160gb drive, and only 15gb dedicated to Ubuntu's installation because of a screwup. I have very little resources at my disposal, as I'm using a netbook with no optical drive, and I can't seem to get the liveusb to work. It just stalls after the menu with an error message. I have no way to connect my machine to the internet, and I've been forced to transfer files from a friend's computer. I'm running out of ideas, but one I thought of was to copy the install partition over to the larger partition. I'm not sure if it's possible, or if it would make a larger install or just a copy of the same size. I just want some clarification on how I would solve this issue, even if my idea doesn't work.
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Apr 7, 2010
How can I do partition of my drive without losing the data?
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May 13, 2010
I got Lucid Lynx and i want to partition the drive into two harddrives when i install, like with windows i would have my harddrive made into C and D and i would have windows on the C and all my movies and stuff on D. I saw some things about making the rest of your space to store files in the /home files but i when i log into ubuntu after installing it shows the /home folder inside the disk. I dont know if it makes sense but, i was wondering if u can have it the way windows does it so it looks like two harddives and which options to select when i'm paraitioning. i really want to change over to ubuntu i just wanna work this out first cause i dont know so much yet haha.
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Jul 24, 2010
So my girlfriend came back from a holiday and it results that she somehow ( dont ask me how) wiped out vista from her hd pavillion laptop. There`s nothing there, the pc doesn't have a guarantee anymore so I thought, what the heck, I could install an ubuntu 10.4 there. It's a nice machine so it should run nicely.
I made her try ubuntu on my laptop and she likes it so she gave me a green light to do it. So how should I go about it? boot the live cd and when I get to the partition part just tell the installer to overwrite the whole c drive and make the partition automatically? I'm kind of a noob so I wouldnt want to mess things up more than what they are.
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Aug 1, 2010
I have been looking around and cant really find a guide on how to do this, I have found guides on how-to put a live CD on a usb flash drive, but this isnt want i want to doI want to use a high-end USB flash drive as a sort of SSD to put my boot partition on, I think if i do this it will decrease my boot time significantly. If it works i am going to take the back case off of my laptop and install the guts of the flash drive inside my laptop, i think the mod would be cool, i just dont know how to do it on the software side
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Oct 30, 2010
I have an existing install of 10.4 on a 320 GB hard drive without home in it's own partition. I have a new 500GB hard drive that I want to install 10.10 on. After installing 10.10 and making /Home on it's own partition can I copy the entire old home folder including the hidden files to the new home partition on the new hard drive so that all of my programs and files are saved. I don't have enough room left on the old hard drive to create and copy home to a new partition. Am I going about this the right way or do I need to rethink and do some kind of backup restore on the new hard drive or some other way. I am trying to accomplish this so that in the future I can install a clean copy of Ubuntu when they are released without losing my current settings and files. I started out with 7.10 but my learning curve is slow.
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Jan 4, 2011
I have just put a new hard drive into my laptop (new drive is dev/sdb) I have formatted the new drive as an ext3 system. On my old hard drive I'm dual booting windows 7 and ubuntu, so my old drive (dev/sda) has several partitions. I am trying to copy ubuntu which is on dev/sda3 (which is itself an "extended" file system composed of sda5 "ext3" and sda6 "linux swap") to dev/sdb. Once copied i intend for the new drive to be an exclusive ubuntu drive and the old drive an exclusive windows 7 drive (by getting rid of dev/sda3 whose content should now be on dev/sdb.) Ubuntu was installed on the old hard drive after windows 7.
I understand the boot loader will be affected although I'm unsure how. I have Gparted installed. I have looked at the man page for the dd command although I don't know how it would work in my particular example. I have also looked at Clonezilla although I don't know if this is appropriate for what I want to do. I have read a few similar threads although I found some of them difficult to follow.
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Jan 9, 2011
I want to copy my ubuntu install to a bigger hard drive, and am not quite sure what to do. According to my google searches, I need to run ubuntu from a live cd, then in a partitioning program copy the ubuntu partition to the new one, then resize it. Is that all? Do I need a linuxswap partition on the new hard drive? I have been using kde partition manager to arrange my new partitions. On one hard drive I have the partition I want to install ubuntu on(what type should this be? ext4?) and a partition to share between ubuntu and windows, and then will use my old ubuntu partition for installing windows xp.
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Jun 30, 2011
I use Windows 7: Home Premium and I have three partitions on my hard disk. Lately I installed Ubuntu NOT on C: (win 7) BUT on D: (size 104 GB). Now, I CAN'T find the drive (D:) on Ubuntu. However I can still find it on Win 7.
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Jul 14, 2011
I have mint installed on my 80gb drive and want to install another distro alongside it! So far none of the distros I have tried have been able to do this themselves.How can I partition the drive for another distro? I have gparted installed and on cd.Please walk me thru the steps,
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Jan 25, 2011
I have the Ubuntu 10.10 netbook saved to my thumbdrive and can boot it up to where I can try it or install. When I go to install I get to the part where t asks if I want to replace windows or run in side by side. I choose side by side and then it takes me to the screen where I have to partition my hard drive. It will not give me the option to do it automatically, only the advanced manually option or replace windows is there.
So when I have to manually partition the hard drive, this is where my lack of knowledge emerges and where I need your help. I have 239 GB available. I was going to leave 189GB dedicated to windows and use 50 to run ubuntu. The part that is Japanese to me is the file format, boot, root, nfts, etc, etc. Can anyone break it down for me BARNEY style?
I have backed up all my windows data and defraged the hard drive. I just want to get this ubuntu working.
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Jan 14, 2010
I 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
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Jan 15, 2010
I just bought a new external 1 TB HP hard drive that came with two partitions.One larger for storage and another 700 MB partition called hplauncher as a sub-file of what shows as a CD drive called HP virtual CD 4607 which held files for windows automatic back up. Which I don't need.Both the CD and launcher drives do not allow for deletion or formatting. The larger drive does.I am viewing it in the Palimpsest Disk Utility that cam with my Ubuntu 9.10 clean install.
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Jan 28, 2010
i was reformatting the hard drive of a laptop & in doing so i accedently deleted the partition of the portable hard drive & now the hard drive dosent show up is there a way to fix this & get the data back
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