Re: Partitioning problems
1. When you use the "install along windows" and there is unallocated space on the disk, IT DOES use that space entirelly. The only thing is that installs with only root and swap (so no way to have a separate /home) for example.
By using the manual partitioning you control the partitions and their size, and also where the bootloader goes which is sometimes very important if you have multiple disks.
2. One reason why the remained space can become unusable after you create a partition is if you already have 3 primary partitions and you create /boot as primary. On disks with msdos table the limit is 4 partitions. That is why it's better to create all ubuntu partitions as logical, not primary, since it works just fine on logical partitions too.
Apart from this, if there is any error or corruption in the partitions table it can start acting weird and not showing the partitions correctly.
If you are in doubt, you can boot the ubuntu cd in live mode first and post the output of:
sudo fdisk -l (small L)
sudo parted -l (small L)
Last edited by darkod; November 18th, 2012 at 11:53 AM.
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