Hello Paul, 250GB is the capacity of your HDD You do have an External HDD 2GB RAM And your partitions are a bit of a mess :D
Well, this is what I would do if I were you: 1- BACKUP each and every important file to my external HDD 2- IF and ONLY IF you want to get rid of the whole thing and start from scratch then: a- Boot your machine from LiveCD or LiveUSB (I prefer LiveUSB - much faster than LiveCD) b- Run GParted c- http://i44.tinypic.com/2whfaxw.jpg - d- Apply: http://i40.tinypic.com/11qsumc.jpg e- http://i43.tinypic.com/s4behe.jpg OR f- http://i43.tinypic.com/bhlzsk.jpg but if you have many partitions, you need to repeat that :) 3- You do need IMHO at least 3 partitions and at most 4 :) a- Root ( / ) b- /home 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 ;) ) BUT usually, with more than 100GB of HDD, the above scheme looks a bit funny so I would suggest a- Root ( / ) b- /home c- SWAP 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) The Data Partition can be 100GB for example or 150GB and the rest for the system. OR, of course, you can keep some un-allocated space for a future use. Usually, that will be on the Extended Partition :) Whenever you want to Dual-Boot or Multi-Boot, you need to understand that: /home Partitions should not be shared - IMHO SWAP partition can be shared - IMHO and this is what I do I had this once: https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/580909_412870952099284_184613381_n.jpg and this: https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/525696_415553451831034_1357280194_n.jpg and this: https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/482307_481553801897665_460432170_n.jpg Just to give you an idea with some examples :) 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 If you have any Q, please ask :) I guess I need to write a new guide/HOWTO for this and it will be helpful. I know Jose will love it when he will read this :P Thanks! On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Paul Sutton <zl...@zleap.net> wrote: > Hi > > I need to re-install Lubuntu cleanly, my current system is dual boot > with linpus, which is never used, the rest of the system was ubuntu > which via apt-get install lubuntu-dekstop now runs that hence i may have > previosuly referred to this as hybrid. > > http://zleap.net/reinstall-of-lubuntu/ > > as you can see from the disk utility the file system is a MESS > > is the best way to go about reinstalling simply to wipe the whole hard > disk and start over > > in which case 250 gb hard disk > > split as > > /boot / 1 GB > /home 90 GB (approx) > / 149 GB (approx) > /swap about 4 - 8 gb (2gb ram) > > > Currently using just over 50gb for /home (this WILL be backed up) > > Where does steam install games to ? the main file system or in > /home/user this will determine how much I allocate to /home or / > > the only person using this system is ME and there is an external HDD > > Paul > > > > > > -- > > > > > -- > http://www.zleap.net > skype : psutton111 > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 > > http://www.raspberrypi.org > http://www.ubuntu.com > > I am committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable > groups and expect any school or establishment I am involved with to share > this commitment. > > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > -- *Best Regards, amjjawad* *https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/* Lubuntu One Stop Thread <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1844755>| My Launchpad <https://launchpad.net/%7Eamjjawad> | My Ubuntu Forum Profile<http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=941822> **
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