Partitioning 101
by Lanh on March 4, 2013
What is a filesystem, a partition, and how do they relate to your hard drive? I describe how to separate portions of your hard disk into usable chunks, how to partition it, and why file systems are important. || Add Me: bit.ly || Free Access to Jackthreads:jthrds.co This lesson applies for people who want to learn about Windows 7 disks, Mac OS X Lion, Ubuntu 12.04, and other Linux distributions. As a special bonus I show you how to resize your Windows drives to prepare for dual-booting, and the best partitioning setup for your Ubuntu (or other Linux) installation.
23 comments
How about extended partitions? I have windows 7 with 3 primary partitions. Can’t install ubuntu 10.04 based system cause I’m only allowed 4 primaries.
by hwally777 on March 4, 2013 at 12:06 pm. #
love linux
by Larry Johnson on March 4, 2013 at 12:14 pm. #
You forgot to mention that you should be careful of partitioning It is good to put data on a separate partition, but it will slow down performance. For example, you don’t want to install games on a separate partition than your OS, because the read head will have to jump a huge length of disk to read from the OS and then the Game
However it is best to have them on separate drives
The cheapest ideal would be OS and running services like AV and drivers on one drive and games and data on other HHD
by lovesthecity3 on March 4, 2013 at 1:02 pm. #
You forgot a /boot partition, if you have/need a full encrypted system-partition!
by PyCoder666 on March 4, 2013 at 1:44 pm. #
In addition to seperate / and /home partitions (on a workstation, anyway) on other directory I *always* put on its own partition is /boot (ext2, 256MB). Reason is if the partition your system boots from is full, you will find yourself in a heap of trouble.
by Alan Murrell on March 4, 2013 at 2:02 pm. #
cute penguin!
by MultiCheckers1 on March 4, 2013 at 3:02 pm. #
Thanks @mrpion33r,I’m gonna give it a try.
I’ll let you know if it works.
by TheFd4all on March 4, 2013 at 3:03 pm. #
u had to run the linux disc while on win7 then it will ask you if u want it install side by side
by Roy Mustang on March 4, 2013 at 4:02 pm. #
That option didn’t show up when I tried to install Ubuntu.
by TheFd4all on March 4, 2013 at 4:27 pm. #
When I installed mint (ubuntu based distro), it was an option during installation “install linux alongside windows”.
by RJW14 on March 4, 2013 at 4:40 pm. #
@Nixie,Please could you do how to install Ubuntu and Windows 7 dual boot,if you’ve not done it yet?
by TheFd4all on March 4, 2013 at 5:21 pm. #
Nixie O_O u’re adorable.. <3 <3
Now with the knowledge of ~nux, gaming!? and a bosom (.Y.) that defies u..
You’re the whole package..aren’t u? :3
(thumbs up fellas
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by max9ification on March 4, 2013 at 5:52 pm. #
I don’t just blank the drive when I reinstall an OS, I rebuild the partition table. Don’t ask me why….
by OSDolphin on March 4, 2013 at 6:31 pm. #
You. Screw you.
by 0nRadar on March 4, 2013 at 7:15 pm. #
I didn’t know were the stuff was stored then, First time i was messing with the /home partition….Anyhow its fixed now like your setu[
by WalesGaming on March 4, 2013 at 8:10 pm. #
Giving 390GB to root on a 500GB disk makes no sense to me, actually. I don’t know what your setup is exactly, but my /home directory takes up to 97% of the overall used disk space.
by borisbrx on March 4, 2013 at 9:01 pm. #
Wow, I’m impressed. I thought you were going to go over the lamest crap. I often make a partition for /usr/local or /usr/local/src. I mean yea… This in reality is the first thing most people learn unless they blank the drive.
by Andrew Harris on March 4, 2013 at 9:31 pm. #
Well when you think about it, Were trying to make files smaller not larger now. So it wll take a long time to get to that level.
by WalesGaming on March 4, 2013 at 10:29 pm. #
Chrome on mint flash is broken, I used firefox on mint (im switching back to ubuntu becouse its easy to have gnome now again)
by WalesGaming on March 4, 2013 at 10:51 pm. #
/home stores alot of stuff, BUt apps are 90% stored in root and there data in home like program files and app data in windows.
by WalesGaming on March 4, 2013 at 11:33 pm. #
My current partition setup is
Tatal drive – 500gb
/home -100gb
swap – 10gb
/ (root) – 390gb
by WalesGaming on March 4, 2013 at 11:37 pm. #
I have made only two partitions for Linux: root and swap. I want to make a separate partition for files, but should that be the Home partition? Because, as it is now, software is installed inside Home. If I make Home a separate partition, will software still be installed there? That’s what I wanna prevent.
by Daniel Piovezan on March 4, 2013 at 11:50 pm. #
I was a Chrome lover too (when I used Windows), but I had some trouble with it’s Linux version (now I’m on Mint too). Now I learned to love Firefox – it even syncs like Chrome.
by Daniel Piovezan on March 5, 2013 at 12:01 am. #