Ubuntu :: Moving Wubi To Normal Partition?

Mar 31, 2011

I have been using wubi for more than half an year. Now I want to move this wubi to local partition (normal ubuntu install). What is the best way to do it? It should be working parallel with windows 7 which i have already.

Is it possible to let windows control the booting, even after installing ubuntu?

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Ubuntu Installation :: Moving Wubi To Partition ?

Jul 30, 2010

I've tried to install Ubuntu 9.04 last year but my modem was malfunctioning, so i gave up on Ubuntu, but i got a new modem and installed Ubuntu using wubi, i loved it and ill make it my main OS, but now i have 2 problems:

1.-I tried using lvpm, but i ended up with a 60 GB new.disk and my hard drive has just 30 Gb (30 gb wubi installation and the 60gb from the new.disk)

2.-i dont know how to shrink windows partition and i dont want to loose my config, tweaks and installed apps my hard drive has 230 gb capacity and i want to leave at least 100 gb to windows

I decided to uninstal wubi and im going to install ubuntu the right way.. it just seems easier..

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Ubuntu Installation :: Moving From Wubi - How To Transfer Stuff

Aug 23, 2011

I am using ubuntu with wubi right now and after a while I am thinking about creating a separate partition for ubuntu and installing ubuntu on it. But I was wondering how can I transfer my files and apps form wubi to the ubuntu installed on the partition? I don't want to install all the apps again and tweaks etc....

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Ubuntu Installation :: Upgrading Wubi - Does LVPM Work For Moving 10.04

May 19, 2010

Will the LVPM utility move Wubi 10.04 onto a dedicated partition?

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The website hasn't been updated since 8.04.

If not, is there a resource that will assist me in moving my data, settings, keyring (and programs if possible) from the Wubi install to a clean install on a new partition?

I'm planning for a transition from Lucid 10.04 Wubi to a dedicated partition for Lucid Studio 10.04, but have been using Wubi for emails, XAMPP web development, etc.

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Ubuntu Installation :: 10.04 Wubi - Windows 7 Partition Along With The Lenovo Recovery Partition

Aug 1, 2011

I tried installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my girlfriend's lenovo using a live disc. First we tried it out to show her the wireless would work fine (her previous lenovo was not ubuntu friendly at all). She's interested in keeping her windows 7 partition along with the lenovo recovery partition, so I tried doing a dual boot install. I manually moved the cursors setting the disk space on each partition, and we allowed Ubuntu to do the rest. Much to my dismay, the installation failed.

I've done some reading over the internet, and I think in our case it would be best to use a Wubi installation. We're interested in using 10.04, so where can we find a wubi installer of Ubuntu 10.04?

Also, any ideas why the installation might have failed? The iso was downloaded off the ubuntu main site, and we burned it using infrarecorder.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Difference Between Wubi And Normal Installation

Aug 10, 2010

I installed lucid using wubi to dual boot with vista - I'm just wondering if there's any advantage to be gained into going back into vista, un installing lucid, making the necessary partitions and reinstalling lucid 'properly'.I use both OSs on a laptop so the power issue regarding fs vulnerability isn't that much of a concern.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Merge Partition With Normal One?

Mar 14, 2010

Right now my HDD says 10,7GB from 38,3GB is free. However, only 17,7 is in use. The other 10 is on a Ubuntu partition. How can I get it back on the normal disk?

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Ubuntu :: Moving /home To Another Partition?

Apr 23, 2010

I know there is a lot of tutorials about this but I`m kind a new in Ubuntu and Linux. I know that it is good to set different partition for /home. But when I installed my ubuntu 9.10 I made 4 partitions

swap
/boot
/ - 40GB
/usr - 200GB

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Ubuntu :: Moving To Dedicated Partition?

Jun 17, 2010

right now i m using ubuntu 10.04 installed on virtual hard disk (wubi), but now i want to move it to dedicated hard drive partition. i found is to use LVPM however that software is NOT compatible with ubuntu 10.04. . .

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Ubuntu Installation :: Moving From One Partition To Another

Dec 9, 2010

I work with ubuntu 10.10 64 bit on a hp pavilion 2713ca laptop. Everything is fine presently, except for the fact that I will be soon out of space on the actual sda6 partition (only 2 gig left).

I would like to move the ubuntu partition with all its content to a second one where there is a lot of space, that is sda2. So my question would be twofold.

1) What software can I use to do that (gparted, clonezilla, ... ) and is someone is familiar with the procedure?

2) Will there be an easy way to change the grub.cfg file? (for example, will the command grub update be enough to boot to new setup)

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Ubuntu :: Stuck On Moving To New Partition

Apr 4, 2011

I have a laptop with a large harddrive. Originally I had the sda1 which was a dell recovery partition, sda2 which is my Win7 partition. I created a new primary partition to try out ubuntu. Falling in love with the OS, I wished to grow the partition but I already had 4 primary partitions.

I deleted my swap partition and converted that to an extended partition, I then grew it to a 100gb extended partition. I created 2 new primary partitions, one for swap and one for the OS..

So my drives are as follows:

This is what I have done thus far:
1. Booted to live CD
2. Mounted /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda6
3. cp -afvR /oldOSPartition /newOSPartition
4. In the NEW OS partition, I updated /etc/fstab to reflect the UUID's of the new disks.
5. I updated /etc/mtools.conf and /etc/mtab as well.
6. I rebooted to old OS partition and ran update-grub && update-grub2
7. I can see the new entries in the grub boot menu
8. I select the kernel entry for /dev/sda6 (NEW OS), it boots, but when I hit the desktop, I open an terminal and do a "mount" and I am somehow still mounted/booted to sda4 (old OS).

From here, I re-mounted /dev/sda6 to a temporary mount point and did a "cd /; grep -r 'sda4' * > /matches.txt"
I also searched for the UUID and I found no matches so I don't know why it reverted to sda4.

Even if I boot to the recovery console entry for /dev/sda6 in the grub menu, same thing, it keeps mounting sda4.

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Ubuntu :: Moving /tmp And /var To Another Partition (after Install)

Jun 12, 2011

i am going to be upgrading to a ssd and would like to move /var and /tmp to a separate partition (it can be separate but preferably the same) how would i extract /var and /tmp to a different partition (need fstab lines and permission settings) when i get another stick of ram i will make /tmp into a ram disk here is my partition layout

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Ubuntu :: Mount The Windows Partition When Using Wubi?

May 25, 2010

Using Ubuntu 10.04 with a Wubi Install. Vista Home Premium is the host. I can access all my partitions and external drives with the exception of my windows partition where Wubi is installed. I have seen some suggestion to go to "places" and click on "host", but there is no "host" listed. My windows install is on sda1 and I believe I need to create a directory for it and then execute a command in the terminal but I have no idea if this correct or what really needs to be done. mount my NTFS windows partition while I am running Ubuntu 10.04 in Wubi.

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Ubuntu :: Transferring Install From WUBI To The Whole Partition?

Aug 19, 2010

I installed Ubuntu a few days ago from WUBI, but now I want to make it take the whole partition and I don't want to lose any files and software I have downloaded (Synaptec/Software Manager ) How can I do that ?

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Ubuntu Installation :: Convert Wubi U10.04 To A Partition?

Aug 26, 2010

I have been using ubuntu 10.04 through wubi installation and would like to now convert it to a dedicated partition .
On searching I found LVPM does that. It converts the wubi install to a dedicated partition including all the softwares and settings.
Unfortunately it doesn't support ubuntu 10.04 currently .
Can anyone suggest any alternate way to achieve the same or a patch for LVPM .

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Ubuntu / Apple :: Use Wubi On Windows Partition?

Aug 1, 2011

I was just curious how many people have succeeded getting a triple boot from simple running boot camp on OS X and install windows 7. Then going to windows 7 partition and running wubi.[URL]... I have a brand new macbook air (one of the ones that just came out) and I'm tempted to try this, but if it doesn't work, then I will sit on my hands a little longer before I try to get the ubuntu on my mba. Anyway, anyone tried this? Especially with a new macbook air?

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Ubuntu :: Moving Home Directory To New Partition?

Jul 16, 2010

I am trying to move my home directory from my install partition to a new partition. I cloned my installation from a previous ~78 gb HD using g4l to a new 250 GB drive. Now that I am using the new drive i created a new partition to used for files called "files". New partition is sda3 and the boot partition is sd1. I am trying to follow this guide [URL] but I am having no success.

The output of:
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find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null --sparse -pvd /media/sda3
is

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pio: /dev/sda3//./.jungledisk/cache/jd2-a114b643324c576f1c36e3f17a9043f4-us/Files/cf-1381.tmp: Cannot open: Not a directory
cpio: `/dev/sda3' exists but is not a directory
cpio: /dev/sda3//./.jungledisk/cache/jd2-a114b643324c576f1c36e3f17a9043f4-us/Files/cf-1336.tmp: Cannot open: Not a directory
cpio: `/dev/sda3' exists but is not a directory
cpio: /dev/sda3//./.jungledisk/cache/jd2-a114b643324c576f1c36e3f17a9043f4-us/Files/cf-1387.tmp: Cannot open: Not a directory
cpio: `/dev/sda3' exists but is not a directory .....

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Ubuntu :: Gparted Crashed While Moving Partition?

Feb 28, 2011

So I was moving and resizing a ntfs partition and i just touched gparted window and it crashed!! it was about 66% of finishing the operation... Now i guess i have a big mess in my hard drive and i dont know how to start solving it! i am in a ubuntu live cd?

If i open gparted now it shows the same partition table than before resizing and moving.. so i guess now part of my data is in this unallocated space after the sda5 partition.

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Ubuntu :: How Safe Is Moving A Boot Partition

Mar 2, 2011

Using gparted as shown on the partitions in the image:

sda1 is Windows 7
sda2 is swap
sda3 is root
sda4 is home

I'd like to move sda4 to the end of the drive, thus shrinking it by 20GB, and shunt every other partition along to make an extra 20GB for sda1 at the start of the drive, and expand this partition into the 20GB of space I created.

When I start moving and shrinking sda4 (before I apply and execute the command) I get a warning saying that it is very dangerous to move a boot partition and it could render my system unbootable etc etc.

How safe is it to do this? If I bork it, can I recover easily?

I assume the error has something to do with start/end disk sectors in the grub2 list (however this works these days). In short, messages like this do what they should and scare me just enough to seek assistance from this wonderful online community!

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Ubuntu :: Moving A Partition - Unmounting Root ?

May 11, 2011

I want to move my / partition to the end of my drive (sda). To do this with gparted, I have to unmount it, but I'm not comfortable with the idea of unmounting root partition... Should I do it from a live cd? More important : is the operation safe?

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Ubuntu :: Moving Tmp Partition - GDM Special Files

Aug 14, 2011

I'm in the process of moving /tmp out of the root filesystem to it's own (larger) partition. From a LiveCD I've:

1. Created the new part (ext4 format and is /dev/sda4)
2. Mounted the installed OS root filesystem (/dev/sda1) as /slash
3. Mounted /dev/sda4 as /newtmp
4. Using gksudo nautilus I'm trying to copy the contents of /slash/tmp to /newtmp

I have 4 files that won't copy - returning the error "Can't copy special files". These are related to ORBit it seems:

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Questions are: a. Will GDM or ORBit fail if I start up without these? b. Or will they just be recreated on the fly if found to be missing? c. What's the best way to proceed?

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Ubuntu :: Wubi Install On Vista Partition - Cannot See Data

Jun 8, 2010

I've installed wubi on my D: partition of a vista os. Vista is installed on the C: I can see the vista partition if I mount it but can only see the wubi 10.04 system files on the data partition (D: ). No option to mount it either. Also curious to know if its possible to automatically mount the c: on startup.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Wubi On D: Partition Doesn't Work?

Jun 13, 2010

I installed Ubuntu 10.04 with WUBI. In the setup wizard in windows, I selected the D partition to install Ubuntu on. It extracted the files, and after a reboot, and selecting Ubuntu, the Ubuntu setup wizzard appeared. After it was done, it rebooted. I selected Ubuntu, and this appeared on my screen:

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booting from (hd0,0)...

And there it stucks! I tried editing C:oot.ini, to let it select the ubuntu files.

My original boot.ini file:

Code:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS

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I have very little space on my system partition (C:) So, I installed it on D:. I'm using Windows XP Professional SP2.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Wubi 10.04 Netbook - Migration To Partition?

Sep 22, 2010

My wubi installation works perfectly but since i cannot restart my netbook i cannot get to use it. however, i am a bioinformatician and for that type of work, i need linux.

migrating my ubuntu wubi install to a different partition on my hdd, from within windows (without restart) in order for me to mount that partition using vmware player and booting up ubuntu from windows. (and to possibly be able to do that from ubuntu as well later.)

so i need to move this wubi install.

I am used to old school move files and edit boot ini and such if there is no automatic way of doing this from within windows.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Upgrade Wubi To Real Partition?

May 25, 2011

I've been using Ubuntu NR 10.04 LTS for almost 1 years now with dual-boot with Windows XP by Wubi and I had great time using it. Now I want to experience the full potential of Ubuntu by creating another partition just for Ubuntu alone since I heard Wubi makes a lot of trouble and works slower than independent Ubuntu install.

Here's my question. Should I really create another partition to get full potential of Ubuntu or should I stick with wubi? I haven't got any problem running Ubuntu with Wubi but my video playback sometimes gone haywire which didn't happen in windows especially .mkv files

If I should create a partition, how do I want to shrink Drive C: to get enough free space for another partition? Mine was Windows XP so it doesn't have shrink option in Disk Managament unlike Vista/7.

And last question... Can Ubuntu run Window games or MMORPG smoothly like Counter Strike and WarcraftIII? I did try to play it before but it run too slower in Ubuntu. I used Netbook Eee PC 900HA, 2GB RAM, dual-boot Windows XP Home Edition with Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.04 Lucid Lnyx LTS.

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Ubuntu :: Full Install To A New Partition Through The WUBI Installation?

Jul 9, 2011

I am running Ubuntu in WUBI inside Windows, my first question is, can you do a full install to a new partition through the WUBI installation? Or would it be better to partition the disk, and just install Ubuntu, then deal with the MBR issue (been a while since I had a normal install, maybe the boot problems are gone?)? And is there any actual advantage to doing a stand alone install, while still dual booting Windows? Is there any gain from it versus the WUBI install I am running now?

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Fedora :: Moving /usr To A New Partition

Jul 31, 2011

I'm running Fedora 14 as a KVM guest on a CentOS host. I decided to give preupgrade-cli a shot to get Fedora 15.

After reboot, I got a not enough free space error, so I decided to add another virtual drive and move /usr to it.

The partition on the new drive is ext4 formatted (just like my / partition)

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Then I mounted the new partition on /newusr, and copied the files using cp and rsync

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I also tried rsync without the HAX options, same results.

I then changed my /etc/fstab to reflect the new /usr

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Then I reboot and watch the booting process, it fails first at loading NetworkManager, then elsewhere, and system stops. Of course I could revert back using a live CD and try all the other options, but nothing works for me.

There is an error in /var/log/boot.log, but I don't think it is related, as it shows when booting normally as well.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Moving Space From One Partition To Another Using GParted

Jul 27, 2010

I have on sda1 Windows 7 installed. On sda2 I have 3 sub partitions (extended partition) with Ubuntu 10.04 and a swap space and one partition for /usr/local. Now I tried to move space from sda2 to sda1 using gparted. It's not possible. I deallocated space from sda2 which works. But I cannot merge it with sda2. Is that, because sda2 is an extended partition? Is there a work around without killing all partitions and lose my complete data?

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Ubuntu Installation :: GParted - Moving Partition Out Of Extended One

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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Ubuntu Networking :: Mount A Server Partition With Normal User Access?

Jan 26, 2010

I need to mount a partition that is on a server (via samba).

I am doing the following in my fstab

Quote:

//server/www /media/www cifs rw,user,allow_other,default_permissions,credential s=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,dir_mode=0777,file_ mode=0777 0 0

I can mount it but it just allows me to access with the root user. How can I do it to get access with any user?

Additional Data: I added "rw,user,allow_other,default_permissions" because I thought that would solve de problem but it didn't.

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