Hello all,
When I installed 12.04 Precise 64bit, I created a 16Gb swap partition. I know, I'm an idiot! After months of use, I never once saw the swap use more that about 300kb of hd space. Because of this, I shrunk the swap partition down to 4Gb. I didn't want to eliminate it altogether as I've read this can cause problems.
Speaking solely about the installers disk partitioning tool, I found the custom partition tools painfully lacking.
I see where the developers are headed but there are some usability issues.
1. Lack of explanation
2. Lack of intuitiveness
3.
Several months ago I installed Ubuntu in an external 500MB USB disk (and on an old MacBook4,1).
with a GPT Partition table and partitioned as following:
swap
swap
an unique ext4 partition for Ubuntu
one NTFS partition for datas
Everything worked fine with Grub on sda (a 500MB disk with standard osx installation and partitions).
Some days ago I installed another distro in another USB disk, al
I am having little problem here.:( I partitioned my sdcard with cwm with 1gb ext4 partition and 256mb of swap partition. it said done succesfully.but when i crosschecked in minitool partition wizard it showd partition as ext3. now when link2sd asks me which partition it is then what should i do. i want to use as ext4 bcz i read that it is the best among ext2 3 4 (tell me if its not).
It is my understanding that if I didn't already have an acceptable partition setup that the new installer would not prompt me create a Swap partition, even if I didn't have a swap partition? For example, if during the installation I used gparted and formatted the whole disk to Ext4, then went to install #! on that partition, it wouldn't ask if I wanted to create a Swap?
Hello all, when I installed, I set up://boot/home/ntfs-partitionAs you can see there's no swap. Now I changed my mind and I'd like to make /boot part of / , AND use that partition for Swap. but how do I go about that?
Ihave ubuntu 11.10 on 1 TB hard drive /home is seperate 890 GB partition swap is 8GB and boot is 9 GB now afrter shrinking /home and moving swap I have unallocated 23 GB between / boot and swap. I need to expand boot to the unallocated space as am getting low disk space warning in boot partition as there is only 796 MB unused in that partition.
My partition scheme is as follows:
/dev/sda1 - Some NTFS partition for Lenovo recovery or something labeled SYSTEM_DRV (this has the Windows boot flag on it)
/dev/sda2 - My NTFS Windows partition
/dev/sda3 - My extended partition containg:
/dev/sda5 - / partition, ext4, ~20 gigs
/dev/sda6 - swap partition, linux-swap, ~3 gigs
/dev/sda7 - /home, ext4, ~450 gigs
/dev/sda4 - Another partition tha
Hi, got a new machine, wanting to do a triple boot.
Since the new rig has 16GB of RAM, and since I rarely logout or use hibernation I'm just going to skip the /swap partition.
So could I just make the /boot, /, and /home partitions and be good?
I've read here of other people setting their swap to zero, don't know exactly what that means, but is it necessary to make a swap however small?
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