I've attached an external USB-drive called "videosdrive" to demonstrate this LABEL - gives the name of the drive, if it has one here is where you can read where your HOME (/home), SWAP () and ROOT (/) are located TYPE - tells you if the listed item is a drive or a partition i.e.
N.B you can tell the difference between the 120 GB SSD and the 1 TB HDD The drives and their partitions are presented as a tree-like structure. To find out where they are located open a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and type
The 3 most important components are (a) the SWAP partition, (b) the ROOT partition and (c) the HOME partition. a 120 GB SSD for the system and a 1TB spinning disk hard drive for your data. Let us assume in this example that your system has 2 drives e.g. If your system has more than one drive you will need to know where the different parts of your system are spread accross the drives. This section is an extra posted by alpinejohn click on the triangle to expand this extra information If you are changing to a different distro then my advice is to format your "home" partition but make sure that you backup all your files before you do so otherwise you will lose everything stored within the home partition!.įollow the steps below and you should have all your data intact in your home folder without losing all your data from the original home folder!. If you are updating lets say Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04, you can keep your "/home" as is without the need to format the home partition, do not however keep your home folder if you are changing from say Ubuntu 12.10 to PeppermintOS because the system configuration files may well cause a system crash or at least make the system unstable or even unuseable!.
People who have a PC/Notebook with UEFI, please see this link before commencing as it may be necessary to add a UEFI partition to your partition layout!:ĭO NOT MIX AND MATCH VARIOUS OPERATING SYSTEMS ON YOUR HOME PARTITION AND BY THAT I MEAN THE FOLLOWING:
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MAKE SURE YOU DEFRAGMENT YOUR WINDOWS DRIVE BEFORE YOU START RESIZING THE WINDOWS PARTITION AS IT MAY WELL LEAD TO DA… WARNING BEFORE YOU START TO PARTITION YOUR DRIVE:
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You can only partition on an unmounted drive using an installation disk of your Linux flavour with a partitioning tool included, use the Gparted tool in live mode, or you can download a copy of Gparted from the link below and create your own Gparted disk: GParted partition guide for Linux and Windows users Tutorials & Guides