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[ubuntu] Two Hard Drives, what now.......?

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I had 8.04LTS from April 2008 till 2 weeks ago. Did a upgrade(?) to 12.04LTS. This was easy and worked great! Have 2 hard drives – (Not Windows!) One with 37GB (/ , boot, Extended(1.8M), Swap(1.8M)) One with 250GB (Extended(1GB), Swap(1GB), unallocated(228GB)) ... (Hardware)

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Submitted by dayu on 03/06/2013

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