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Prepare disk space it telling me its too small in install

Asked by Lottoplus

Hello,
I am installing Ubuntu on my laptop, I also have vista windows on my laptop. When I get to step 4"Prepare disk space"

I'm using the guided resize-->New partition size: Windows 46% and Ubuntu 54% 116GB
I want to change this to 30GB but I am getting the error that the partition is too small

When I click forward I get the message that the partition is too small even get this message when I went with the guided

How can I fix this
Thanks

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Lottoplus (jansendavis) said : 		#1

Heres the output of my partition table

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x48000000

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 15 120456 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 16 1321 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 1321 30075 230969340 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 30075 30402 2621440 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 30075 30402 2620416 dd Unknown
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

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Savvas Radevic (medigeek) said : 		#2

Post the output of this command as well:
df -h

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Ariel Cabral (acabral1961) said : 		#3

This is because you have no ext3 partition and have no swap partition.
Ubuntu can read an NTFS or FAT partition, but can't leave on it.
You must have and ext3 partition with 30Gb and a Linux swap partition (no less than 1Gb) to make Ubuntu works as you wish.
Hope this helps, let me know.

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Lottoplus (jansendavis) said : 		#4

Thanks for the replies here is the output of that command

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 1.5G 17M 1.5G 2% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
tmpfs 1.5G 17M 1.5G 2% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
varrun 1.5G 112K 1.5G 1% /var/run
varlock 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock
udev 1.5G 80K 1.5G 1% /dev
devshm 1.5G 12K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1.5G 16K 1.5G 1% /tmp
gvfs-fuse-daemon 1.5G 92M 1.4G 7% /home/ubuntu/.gvfs
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

There is plenty of space on the machine for ubuntu approx 200gb, But I think the partitions are currently taken up with windows, dell media, recovery

<quote>You must have and ext3 partition with 30Gb and a Linux swap partition (no less than 1Gb) to make Ubuntu works as you wish.</quote>

I'm not too sure how to do this, do I need to create a new unallocated partition to do this? can you explain a bit more please

Thanks
John

Thanks

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Savvas Radevic (medigeek) said : 		#5

You can resize your partitions by booting using the Live CD and going to System > Administration > Partition Editor

There you can resize your NTFS drive without any problems, and leave some 30-35GB of unpartitioned (empty) space in the hard disk.

I think that Ubuntu can catch up and use the unpartitioned space for its installation.

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Savvas Radevic (medigeek) said : 		#6

Note that it will take a looooong time to resize.
Friendly advice: DO NOT STOP/CANCEL ONCE YOU HIT "Apply" in Partition Editor!

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Ariel Cabral (acabral1961) said : 		#7

Did you have Vista installed on your laptop?

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