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[ubuntu] how to hide ubuntu partition on external HDD?

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi! My laptop not enough space, so i have to split 20GB on my external-hdd and install Ubuntu on my external-hdd but when i plug it in another computer they can access 20GB partition and may be i'll lost my data. How can i hide 20GB partition of Ubuntu when using my external-hdd on another computer? :( (Hardware)

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Submitted by linuxfan on 12/02/2012

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hi friends,

Iam having 8o GB hard drive and i created 4 partition, in c: windows vista (20GB) in d:software (20GB) in e:songs (20GB) in f:movies (20GB)

I really bored with windows and i tried to install ubuntu 11.04 i formated c drive and installed ubuntu 11.04 in it. after booting, i cant access (mount) d,e,f drives. it shows "lost+found" error.

It's the first time I install Ubuntu. I need some advise to plan a good partition strategy for a Ubuntu (12.04) + Windows7 (64bit) system.

I have 1TB Hard disk, 8GB RAM. I'd like to have a big partition NTFS to share data between the two OS I often use a lot of (big) apps. (So my partition Widows C: must takes about 150GB)

What is the partition size should I put for root and home?

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I'm new to ubuntu so please forgive any stupid mistakes. I'm trying to install ubuntu 11.10 to a 500 GB external usb hard drive, to dual boot with windows 7 (windows has already 4 primary partitions so that's the reason for the external drive).

Need help with partitioning 1 year 7 weeks ago

I bought a new laptop with no OS and decided to try to Linux (Ubuntu) for the first time in my life. It was a clean install, my laptop had no other OS present in it, not even DOS.

While installing, it asked for partitioning. Out of the 320GB of free space I created a new partition of 20 GB and installed Ubuntu in it.

I have two HDDs>> hd0 is internal , hd1 is external.

I installed Ubuntu 9.04 in the external hdd as follows: "\home" ext3-partition in (hd1,2) "\root" ext3-partition in (hd1,3) "swap" partition in (hd1,4)

During installation, I changed the bootloader setting.

I am using a dual boot Ubuntu/win7 machine. My win 7recovery partition is around 20GB, since I have created recovery disks I am assuming I no longer need it my windows partition is only small I was thinking to delete the recovery and add an extra 20GB to my Win. Is my thinking sensible there?. The recovery partition shows as the 1st partition on my hard disc.

I have successfully installed Ubuntu 11.10 on external HDD. The external HDD is not getting recognized when the MAC is restarted. I have installed it on external HDD, as I didn't want to play with Mac OS partition.

Any way to make MAc recognize the external HDD and boot Ubuntu.

i have an external Seagate SATA 320 Gb HDD attached to my pc. it has two partitions. two days back somehow one partition disappeared and the pc is not displaying the contents of it both in ubuntu and windows. i had important data on that. windows partition manager is detecting the partition but while trying to explore the partition, it is showing that the drive is corrupted.

Basically what I want to do is install a fresh copy of Ubuntu from Ubuntu. It is an older machine so usb boot doesn't work and I don't see why I need to waste a CD to do it.