Parition

[roshanbernard]

Hi ,

i have already installed ubuntu 11.04 in my 2TB hard drive....and i forgot to partition it before the installation..

is there anyway i can create partition now.

gparted wont let me do it....as there is only one drive which has the OS installed.

reagrds

rosh

[WthIteh]

Hi ,

i have already installed ubuntu 11.04 in my 2TB hard drive....and i forgot to partition it before the installation..

is there anyway i can create partition now.

gparted wont let me do it....as there is only one drive which has the OS installed.

reagrds

rosh
Yes. The gparted does not let you to change partitioning since that partition is mounted. If you boot from a live CD (so the partition could be unmounted), then gparted allows to divide your partition.

[Rubi1200]

Hi ,

i have already installed ubuntu 11.04 in my 2TB hard drive....and i forgot to partition it before the installation..

is there anyway i can create partition now.

gparted wont let me do it....as there is only one drive which has the OS installed.

reagrds

rosh
Hi and welcome to the forums :-)

Just to be clear on something, is this a regular install or using Wubi inside Windows?

Please post the output of the following commands from within the Ubuntu install:


sudo parted -l

df -H

[roshanbernard]

hi rubi,
i got this following error msg.

roshan@roshan:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA WDC WD20EARS-00M (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 17.4kB 1018kB 1000kB bios_grub
2 1018kB 401MB 400MB ext2
3 401MB 2401MB 2000MB linux-swap(v1)
4 2401MB 22.4GB 20.0GB ext4
5 22.4GB 2000GB 1978GB ext4


roshan@roshan:~$ df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 20G 6.0G 13G 32% /
none 6.3G 734k 6.3G 1% /dev
none 6.4G 635k 6.4G 1% /dev/shm
none 6.4G 218k 6.4G 1% /var/run
none 6.4G 0 6.4G 0% /var/lock
/dev/sda2 375M 24M 332M 7% /boot
/dev/sda5 2.0T 109G 1.8T 6% /home


i got this msg....

can i make a seperate drive...because i dont wanna store everything in home folder..

regards

roshan

[roshanbernard]

and i installed through the USB..complete install....not wubi install..

[srs5694]

First, when posting output from text-mode utilities, please enclose the copied-and-pasted text in
and tags. This improves legibility by keeping columns properly aligned.

Second, the term "drive" is generally applied to physical disks or removable-disk readers (like optical disc drives). It's common in the Windows world to use this term to refer to partitions, but that usage is uncommon in Linux. I'm not trying to scold you here; I'm just trying to inform you of the common usage in Linux so as to avoid miscommunication now or in the future.

Third, your output contained no error messages. The output you identified as error messages is the normal output of those utilities, which is what Rubi1200 was asking to see.

Fourth and finally, your partitioning looks fine to me. The /home directory is intended to hold your user data. Creating a separate partition for ordinary user data is, in all probability, re-inventing the wheel. There are exceptions to this rule, but you haven't provided any reasoning behind your desire to create additional partitions, so without further information, I'd have to advise against doing it. If you have a specific reason for wanting to create more partitions, please elaborate about those reasons.

[roshanbernard]

I am done with ubuntu 11.04.....i was workign with 10.10 for 2 months..and everythign worked fine for me...

I am not using linux for fun.I am doing study on genemoic assembly and its very important to me.But 11.04 wasted my time and its a big disappointment for me.None of my software worked with 11.04.....

i am switching back to ubuntu 10.10...
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