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I want to install Linux Ubuntu on a separate partition. So I went to shrink my hard drive partition (783 GB/919 GB free) and it says the biggest partition I can make is 3391 MB. How do I increase the size of that? I want the partition for Ubuntu to be at least 29 GB. |
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It's hard to explain, so I'll do it with photos :3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5rl-5iIwN4 Someone on the LockerGnome channel did this in video form as well! |
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You want 3 partitions for Linux. 1 for swap area, 2 for the root / directory and 3 for the home directory. You could use just two but with Ubuntu being a rolling release distro; it's good to have a home directory that you can chose not to overwrite. It's also good to have the home directory on it's own partition because it allows more user control of the directory. In other words if you don't have a home partition you may have trouble changing or deleting your docs, pics, music, etc... You could easily narrow that down to just two partitions if you're willing to screw with Ubuntu a little. As of Kernel Version 2.6 a swap file is just as fast as a swap partition. Though getting Hibernation to work will require some screwing around, Though it is very possible to do (I've gotten it working with zero issues). A swap file? :) Is it dynamic? That would be convenient for my desktop. I wouldn't be concerned with hibernation. Not dynamic, but a lot easier to work with, in my opinion. There's a lot more manual configuration to be done but otherwise it's nearly identical to a partition except that it isn't an actual partition. You just set it up initially with the same amount of space as you would the partition, and then can go back and adjust it later (albeit you need to redo a few things) without ever needing to touch your partitions. Even though it's not dynamic it's still worth looking into. Is there a tutorial some where? Here, Scroll down to the instructions for creating a file. Best of Luck! https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq#How_do_I_add_more_swap.3F |
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you are also going to want to defrag the partition so you can shrink it further... resize doesn't (or didn't) do it automatically... and you have to hope your swap file and hiberfil.sys are not in a bad spot or you will have to disable hibernation and virtual memory and hibernation, then defrag then resize, and then re-enable them so the non movable files are not in the way of the resize... if you do have to disable them windows should delete the files on restart but you may have to delete them manually afterwards... it isn't always 100% on windows doing what it should |
