I told you I would do it!!

skywalker45skywalker45 Bloomington, IN. USA
edited February 2007 in Science & Tech
Hey all and drasnor:)

After working on Linux apps all day at work for the past countless years I finally downloaded and installed Ubuntu 6.10 to make a dual boot machine between WinXP and Linux. I was actually quite surprised at how easy it was to set up. Nothing like the Fedora machines at work. In total it took about 2 hours. Most of which was downloading Ubuntu itself. It got just a little dicey installing the driver for my Nvidia graphics card, but other than that it was a complete success. I also installed some eye candy with the Beryl window manager. Pretty cool stuff although I'm not sure how practical. Anyway, I finally welcome myself to have Linux running from home. Something I've planned to do for a very long time.

Peace,
skywalker.

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  • skywalker45skywalker45 Bloomington, IN. USA
    edited January 2007
    I almost forgot. One thing I find kind of strange and can't quite figure out. I installed ubuntu on a secondary slave 40GB HDD that had already been formatted FAT32. I only used the drive for some docs backups for Windows and there was about 38GB free space when I made the install. When I set up ubuntu it allocated around a gig of swap space. After the install however, I notice that the free space on the drive says 16.7GB. If I boot into Windows and look at this drive, my backups for Windows are still there and it says that 18GB is free. This is down from the 38 from before. My question is why didn't ubuntu just allocate the rest of the disk for itself? I will never use this extra space for Windows since I already have more than enough room. How can I allocate this 18GB for ubuntu. Just for the record I don't remember being asked how much to use when I did the install. Not sure why this happened but any input would be appreciated. I've never set up Linux on a drive that was partially shared with other OS files and formats.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    Can you post the partition map from either Windows Disk Management or Linux fdisk?

    -drasnor :fold:
  • skywalker45skywalker45 Bloomington, IN. USA
    edited January 2007
    I'll post that tonight drasnor.
  • skywalker45skywalker45 Bloomington, IN. USA
    edited January 2007
    Here's the partition map:

    Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20000268288 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2431 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/hda1 * 1 2430 19518943+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

    Disk /dev/hdb: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/hdb1 * 1 2434 19551073+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

    Disk /dev/hdd: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/hdd1 1 2289 18386361 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
    /dev/hdd2 * 2290 4756 19816177+ 83 Linux
    /dev/hdd3 4757 4865 875542+ 5 Extended
    /dev/hdd5 4757 4865 875511 82 Linux swap / Solaris
  • beatzbeatz i am a hamburger Member
    edited February 2007
    Hello!

    As I see it 20gb should be plenty of space for your ubuntu partition. There is also no problem in using FAT32 partitions in linux, so you can always use that partion to store data, if there is not enough room to store it on your root partition (the partition, where your ubuntu is installed). It should be easily accessible through your file manager under /media.

    Anyways, there always the option to resize the partitions.

    Beryl rocks!

    Michael
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited February 2007
    Where exactly is Ubuntu showing you that you have 16.7GB free?

    -drasnor :fold:
  • skywalker45skywalker45 Bloomington, IN. USA
    edited February 2007
    Where exactly is Ubuntu showing you that you have 16.7GB free?

    When I go to disk management it says 2.2% of 16.7GB used or something like that. I might be wrong about how I'm even going about explaining this but I do know that before installing Ubuntu my E:\ (dev/hdd) drive (the drive with Ubuntu) had around 37GB free according to Windows. After the installation Windows says there is around half that left which logically means that Ubuntu should be telling me the truth about the partition size. Windows disk management graphics have the drive split in half with half FAT32 and the other half unknown with around a gig of virtual. I'm really not worried about how much is left since I tend not to be a resource hog myself. I was just curious about how to allocate the entire disk for Ubuntu in case I want to.
    :)
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited February 2007
    OH! I thought that you were having a problem with Windows not reporting the correct free space on a partition which could stem from a corrupted FAT filesystem.

    There are lots of ways to resize Linux partitions. I personally am a wimp and would pull out another drive and make a binary copy using dd, wipe the original drive and repartition as desired, then binary copy back. If you're lazy though and like playing fast and loose with your data then you can use parted to remove the Windows partition and grow your other one.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • skywalker45skywalker45 Bloomington, IN. USA
    edited February 2007
    Thanks drasnor. I'm going to leave things alone for now. I really don't think I'll need the extra space but if I do I'll work it out.

    Thanks,
    skywalker
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