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partitioning Hardy - clean install - hard disk - home partition

Asked by Piet Beukes

Hi, I want to make a clean install of my whole hard disk with HardyH, wiping all my data (which I have backed up separately on another hard disk, (which I have to give back afterwards when finished). I have used HardyH before but not a clean install. Now that I try it, I do not understand the various options which the install instruction provide me - it has other names than what I expected.

all I want is
1) the root
2) the swap (2 gig)
3) the /home
but this is not spesified
any advice?
rusty

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Philip Wyett (philwyett) said : 		#1

Select the installer to use the whole disk you want to use. It will give you the best defaults.

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Best Nicola S. (strambinico) said : 		#2

If during the install procedure you just choose your hard disk, then you select "erase entire disk", Hardy will create automatically root + home and swap.

if you want to choose sizes for them you just have to choose manually edit partition table

for more infos read here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall#Select%20a%20Disk

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Piet Beukes (zabear1) said : 		#3

Hi thax for advice - I have looked at the read here pieces
question -
If I use automatic clean install (whole disk erased) - which is what I want to do - will it give me a separate partition for /home or will the /home be part of the one partition?
I want a separate home partition so that when the next install comes (Ibex), I will only have to do a install of the root part and not of the separate home partition
Does this (separate home partition) happen automatic with the clean install when I erase the entire disk? or should I somehow specify it?
rusty

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Philip Wyett (philwyett) said : 		#4

You will need to do manual partitioning for what you want.

See: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DrivesAndPartitions

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Piet Beukes (zabear1) said : 		#5

Hi,
I used Philip's advice and used manual partitioning - After about the 5th install routine I got what I wanted:
a swap part. (around 2 gig)
a root part. (just more than 20 gig)
a home part. (the rest of my hard drive - around 130+ gig)

It was not straight-forward and the instructions in the 'how-to' was not the same as on the HardyH installation gui, but by using a clean newly partitioning of the whole of the hard disk, I could experiment till I got it (w)right :-)

* having a separate home partition will mean less trouble in future

thanx for assisting and staying with me on this
rusty

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Piet Beukes (zabear1) said : 		#6

Thanks Nicola S., that solved my question.