HDD Space

[yongkailoon]

So how much of disk space does your Ubuntu or any other distro gets ? Mine is only 15GB because I use dual boot, do you think 15GB is too little for Ubuntu 7.04 ?

[blithen]

The full thing. 150gb :D

[jflaker]

So how much of disk space does your Ubuntu or any other distro gets ? Mine is only 15GB because I use dual boot, do you think 15GB is too little for Ubuntu 7.04 ?

Too Little? My installation is only occupying 9.4GB (not dual boot).....you may have more or less installed and with dual boot, you are also using disk space on the other partition. That sounds about right.

I just got rid of Vista which was occupying about 30GB before my own data is taken into account.

[yongkailoon]

So it seems that 15GB is still enough for Ubuntu huh ? Well I just started using Linux yesterday so I am actually doing a survey on the disk space. :)

[herbster]

I use 10gb for root and 20gb for home.

[jflaker]

be mindful of your disk space. In 7.10, you can read AND write NTFS which means you can utilize your windows partition for storage of documents and such. 7.04 you can only read NTFS.

[futz]

Roughly 2 terabytes on this machine. A bit less on the others. :biggrin:

[yongkailoon]

Is it possible for me to just resize back the partition without going through the install process of Ubuntu ? I think I will take some space from my 320GB HDD. Yea it is a hassle and pity it can't write to NTFS for 7.04 but I don't plan to upgrade until 7.10 is 100% stable. :(

[jflaker]

you can download GPARTED which will allow you to resize the partitions.....search for it through Synaptic Package manager

[yongkailoon]

It seems that I can't unmount the drive.

"The partition could not be unmounted from the following mountpoints:

/media/sdb2

Most likely other partitions are also mounted on these mountpoints. You are advised to unmount them manually."

If I do it manually it says it disagrees with fstab.