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Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as 'partitions'

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Look, i want to experience the ubuntu outside of virtual machine and i want to install ubuntu on my laptop. There are two problems though. First, i don't have a spare usb or something like that. ...
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I just built a new PC and I'm trying to mount two internal hard drives from my old desktop so that I can use the data on them. When I look at it in Windows, everything seems perfectly in order: ...
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I recently experienced a complete system freeze on my notebook (with no mouse or keyboard response), and the only solution was a forced shutdown. To avoid potential filesystem corruption, I formatted ...
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I need to dual boot my Windows 11 system with Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) to run ROS2, Gazebo and Docker natively. I tried following YT tutorials and yet ran into some errors. I'll be ...
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I purchased a laptop with windows installed. I shrunk the windows partition and created several new ext4 partitions. I installed Ubuntu on one of them. Everything was cool until I goofed and messed ...
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I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 in a HDD (/dev/sdd) and I have a 2T SSD disk (/dev/sdb) where I have another ubuntu installed and that is partitioned like this: $ sudo gdisk -l /dev/sdb GPT fdisk (gdisk) ...
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I am looking for a good answer how to dual boot multiple versions of Ubuntu on same server PC and here is why... First I am not looking for opinion on what versions of ubuntu I should use, simply you ...
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I have a VM (VirtualBox) I use for school and need to install a new program. My VM ran out of space so I increased the storage size (from 25gb to 50gb). I saw this did nothing at first and learned I ...
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I accidentally reformatted a drive partition that is encrypted using the standard Ubuntu encryption. The affected partition was incorrectly formatted as NTFS. I did not perform any overwrites when ...
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I have only one USB drive and have Windows image on it now. It took quite some time for me to figure out how to make it bootable so I don't want to format it again and install Ubuntu ISO on it to run ...
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I have read most of the threads here and I cannot find a solution. I use the disks utility but all the options are greyed out. If I try to use terminal it tells me I have no permission to modify the ...
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Currently, this PC has Ubuntu 20.04 LTS in the 256 GB ext4 partition, as shown below, dual booting with Windows 10. This works well, using GRUB to select OS when booting. In the meanwhile, I've set ...
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I have an old nb250-108 Toshiba from about 2008. It has Win 7 on it so I would not dream of connecting it to the internet for obvious reasons. I would just like to use it as a handy thing to carry ...
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I installed Ubuntu on my laptop to dual boot with Windows 10. It was working fine, and then one day Windows died with a blue screen of death. I can still get into Ubuntu. I need some files from the ...
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I am trying to boot Ubuntu 24.04.03 into my laptop. It has a 120GB SSD and 1.0TB HDD. I have read through a few tutorials and here is what I have tried: Creating two partitions mounted / and /home. ...
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