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Partitioning Drives

Asked by Jenn

Forgive me, I'm very new to this.

So a couple of days ago I installed Ubuntu 11.04 to run alongside Windows 7 as I wasn't sure how I'd take to it. I partitioned 18 GB to it so that I could dual boot, and left the rest of my 1 TB hard drive untouched.

As I've been installing my programs and what not, I've been running low on space. I want to add more space to my mounted partition so that I can use this as my primary OS, but I still want to keep Windows on the system JIC. Is there a simple way to do this? I'm not yet familiar with the Command Line or anything like that but I'm willing to learn.

Also, it said as I was loading up that due to my hard drive I could only run Classic, not standard Ubuntu. Is there a reason for this?

Thanks in advance!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a;dpkg -l | grep linux-image-

Thanks

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Jenn (buriedzombiecat) said : 		#2

Sure, how do I do that? I'm not familiar with the command line yet. Sorry!

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Jenn (buriedzombiecat) said : 		#3

Oh, I feel so clever; I found it. Here you go:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
Linux ubuntu 2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:17:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ii linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic 2.6.38-11.50 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.38 on x86/x86_64
ii linux-image-2.6.38-8-generic 2.6.38-8.42 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.38 on x86/x86_64
ii linux-image-generic 2.6.38.11.26 Generic Linux kernel image
bunnybean@ubuntu:~$

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-2.6.38-8; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

Will remove the old kernel and get you at least 120Mb of space. I also suggest you install and run bleachbit and user and root, have as many apps CLOSED as you can to free up the files. This can save you a LOT of space. Avoid options stating they will take a long time to run and watch the application settings of you will remove stuff you wan to keep.

18Gb for Ubuntu is plenty. My system partition here is little under 4Gb so you should be ok.

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Best marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#5

actionparsnip runs off the command line interface, so 4 gigs works for him. if you intend on using the graphical interface, such as gnome or unity, you'll need more. i've heard people being able to run on 10 gigs only. however, the minimum requirements recommended is 15 gigs. you have plenty with 18 gigs.

if you're running out of space because you're saving a lot of documents, you can create a shared partition in the windoze partition. that's what i did when i was transferring over from windoze. this will allow both windoze and ubuntu to have access to the documents. after using ubuntu for awhile, you'll find that it's superior to windoze in many facets and will probably want to get rid of windoze altogether :D

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Jenn (buriedzombiecat) said : 		#6

Thank you; I might make a partition that the two drives can share. I do use Gnome; I'm sorry I didn't specify.

One more quick thing: When I try to install one of my programs (a Windows exe that I'm attempting to run through WINE), it says there's not enough space in the temporary folder; please choose another location. Why is it doing that if I do have enough space?

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Jenn (buriedzombiecat) said : 		#7

Thanks marcus aurelius, that solved my question.