<div dir="ltr">Hello Paul,<div><br></div><div style>250GB is the capacity of your HDD</div><div style>You do have an External HDD</div><div style>2GB RAM</div><div style>And your partitions are a bit of a mess :D</div><div style>
<br></div><div style>Well, this is what I would do if I were you:</div><div style><br></div><div style>1- BACKUP each and every important file to my external HDD</div><div style>2- IF and ONLY IF you want to get rid of the whole thing and start from scratch then:</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>a- Boot your machine from LiveCD or LiveUSB (I prefer LiveUSB - much faster than LiveCD)</div><div style>b- Run GParted</div><div style>c- <a href="http://i44.tinypic.com/2whfaxw.jpg">http://i44.tinypic.com/2whfaxw.jpg</a> - </div>
<div style>d- Apply: <a href="http://i40.tinypic.com/11qsumc.jpg">http://i40.tinypic.com/11qsumc.jpg</a></div><div style>e- <a href="http://i43.tinypic.com/s4behe.jpg">http://i43.tinypic.com/s4behe.jpg</a></div><div style>
<br></div><div style>OR</div><div style><br></div><div style>f- <a href="http://i43.tinypic.com/bhlzsk.jpg">http://i43.tinypic.com/bhlzsk.jpg</a> but if you have many partitions, you need to repeat that :)</div><div style>
<br></div><div style>3- You do need IMHO at least 3 partitions and at most 4 :)</div><div style><br></div><div style>a- Root ( / )</div><div style>b- /home</div><div style>c- SWAP (no need for 8GB SWAP if you have 2GB RAM - in your case, it is recommend to have SWAP = RAM so 2GB SWAP is fine ;) )</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>BUT usually, with more than 100GB of HDD, the above scheme looks a bit funny so I would suggest</div><div style><br></div><div style>a- Root ( / )</div><div style>b- /home</div><div style>c- SWAP</div>
<div style>d- Data Partition (no mount point needed - just ext4 or anything but as long as you are not dual-booting with Windows, then use a Linux File System like ext4)</div><div style><br></div><div style>The Data Partition can be 100GB for example or 150GB and the rest for the system.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>OR, of course, you can keep some un-allocated space for a future use. Usually, that will be on the Extended Partition :)</div><div style><br></div><div style>Whenever you want to Dual-Boot or Multi-Boot, you need to understand that:</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>/home Partitions should not be shared - IMHO </div><div style>SWAP partition can be shared - IMHO and this is what I do</div><div style><br></div><div style>I had this once: <a href="https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/580909_412870952099284_184613381_n.jpg">https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/580909_412870952099284_184613381_n.jpg</a></div>
<div style><br></div><div style>and this: <a href="https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/525696_415553451831034_1357280194_n.jpg">https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/525696_415553451831034_1357280194_n.jpg</a></div>
<div style><br></div><div style>and this: <a href="https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/482307_481553801897665_460432170_n.jpg">https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/482307_481553801897665_460432170_n.jpg</a></div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Just to give you an idea with some examples :)</div><div style>In fact, in my case, I always have so many partitions specially on my test machines but of course less on my main machine which I didn't use for two or three days now because I'm busy with testing :D</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>If you have any Q, please ask :)</div><div style><br></div><div style>I guess I need to write a new guide/HOWTO for this and it will be helpful. </div><div style><br></div><div style>I know Jose will love it when he will read this :P</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Thanks!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Paul Sutton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zleap@zleap.net" target="_blank">zleap@zleap.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
<br>
I need to re-install Lubuntu cleanly, my current system is dual boot<br>
with linpus, which is never used, the rest of the system was ubuntu<br>
which via apt-get install lubuntu-dekstop now runs that hence i may have<br>
previosuly referred to this as hybrid.<br>
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<a href="http://zleap.net/reinstall-of-lubuntu/" target="_blank">http://zleap.net/reinstall-of-lubuntu/</a><br>
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as you can see from the disk utility the file system is a MESS<br>
<br>
is the best way to go about reinstalling simply to wipe the whole hard<br>
disk and start over<br>
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in which case 250 gb hard disk<br>
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split as<br>
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/boot / 1 GB<br>
/home 90 GB (approx)<br>
/ 149 GB (approx)<br>
/swap about 4 - 8 gb (2gb ram)<br>
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<br>
Currently using just over 50gb for /home (this WILL be backed up)<br>
<br>
Where does steam install games to ? the main file system or in<br>
/home/user this will determine how much I allocate to /home or /<br>
<br>
the only person using this system is ME and there is an external HDD<br>
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Paul<br>
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