Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning

On 1 March 2016 at 23:39, David Goldsbrough wrote: > I thought I should update readers on this saga and thank people for their > input. > All is now solved. I now have my 120GB drive in full use. Glad to hear it. Next time, don't use LVM! As you have discovered, it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning

I thought I should update readers on this saga and thank people for their input. All is now solved. I now have my 120GB drive in full use. I ran the following commands and show the output. sudo pvresize /dev/sda5 Physical volume "/dev/sda5" changed 1 physical volume(s) resized / 0 physical

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning

Thanks Daniel. I have tried sudo lvextend -l+100%FREE /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root (I think we did try this before). I received the following output:- New size (13736 extents matches existing size (13736 extents) Run 'lvexted --help' for more information. I did do this but it still left me

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning

Hi David, Sorry for the delay in replying. I still believe you can get your 120GB drive how you want it, so all is not lost yet. It looks like your LVM partition is the correct size now, but the volume with your root filesystem is still the old size. This suggests that you need to run:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning

This post is to partly answer my own question at the end of my last post. These 3 outputs may be useful:- $ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning

I am going to spare you Daniel all the details and other readers of this post. Briefly I had documented everything and that is now lost for reasons I can only guess. I had chosen your Option 2 without success and then Option 1 with I hope is success. I did though suffer errors on re-boot and so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning

On 7 February 2016 at 21:56, David Goldsbrough wrote: > Well something happened if not what was desired! But no twisted knickers! > > I booted from a Ubuntu liveCD and then CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to command > prompt and ran all commands as sudo. > > I scribbled down outputs

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning

Let me start Daniel, by saying a big thank you for all your time and patience in helping me with these issues - I really do appreciate it. Well, I did what you advised. Deleted the inadvertent /dev/sda3, then deleted /dev/sda5, and did a new, specifying a logical partition and accepting the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning

On 8 February 2016 at 22:32, David Goldsbrough wrote: > > $ sudo parted -l > > Model: ATA TOSHIBA MK1255GS (scsi) > Disk /dev/sda: 120GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: msdos > > Number Start EndSize Type File system Flags > 1

Re: [ubuntu-uk] partitioning

On 6 February 2016 at 22:51, Jim Price wrote: > It looks like you had ticked the lvm option on the original installation. Before I get to that line... > As > you haven't mentioned that I thought I would I am not sure I understand that. Anyway, David, you should have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] partitioning

On 7 February 2016 at 13:35, David Goldsbrough wrote: > > Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root: 57.6 GB, 57612959744 bytes > This is the device for your LVM-based root volume > Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1: 2139 MB, 2139095040 bytes > This is your swap device (also in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] partitioning

Many thanks for your responses. I only get the daily digest of ubuntu-uk so forgive me if there have been some responses that cross in the mail. Since my original post I have been doing more research. TBH I cannot recall ticking the LVM option when doing the original install some years ago. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning

Well something happened if not what was desired! But no twisted knickers! I booted from a Ubuntu liveCD and then CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to command prompt and ran all commands as sudo. I scribbled down outputs following many steps/commands you gave but forgive me if I cannot fully transcribe to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning

That sounds brilliant Daniel! Excuse the noob questions:- I guess I need to boot from a live CD to do this? Will those steps destroy my data? I appreciate a backup is always wise - its the restore that scares me! Bear in mind I have the original 60GB disk and have done very little on my new disk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning

On 7 February 2016 at 16:59, David Goldsbrough wrote: > That sounds brilliant Daniel! > Excuse the noob questions:- > I guess I need to boot from a live CD to do this? > Will those steps destroy my data? I appreciate a backup is always wise - > its the restore that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] partitioning

On 05/02/16 21:27, David Goldsbrough wrote: Using Clonezilla I have cloned my 60GB disk to a 120GB partially successfully.. It boots fine and all is well. I was though a little surprised that I did not get the opportunity to fully utilise the disk and it looks as if there is 60GB unallocated.

[ubuntu-uk] partitioning

Using Clonezilla I have cloned my 60GB disk to a 120GB partially successfully.. It boots fine and all is well. I was though a little surprised that I did not get the opportunity to fully utilise the disk and it looks as if there is 60GB unallocated. I have never been very good with Gparted but

[ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Question

Hi A bit of advice on partitioning, please. I currently dual-boot Xubuntu and Windows 7. I've now got to the happy situation where I no longer need any Windows applications. Consequently I'd like to delete Windows and reclaim the 80 Gb of disk space it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Question

On 10 March 2012 14:32, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi A bit of advice on partitioning, please. I currently dual-boot Xubuntu and Windows 7. I've now got to the happy situation where I no longer need any Windows applications. Consequently I'd like to delete Windows and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Question

From: Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com To: Ubuntu UK Mailing List ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Saturday, 10 March 2012, 14:32 Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Question Hi A bit of advice on partitioning, please. I currently dual-boot Xubuntu and Windows 7. I've now got

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Question

On 10/03/12 14:32, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi A bit of advice on partitioning, please. I currently dual-boot Xubuntu and Windows 7. I've now got to the happy situation where I no longer need any Windows applications. Consequently I'd like to delete Windows and reclaim the 80 Gb of disk space

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Question

On 10 March 2012 17:00, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 10/03/12 14:32, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi A bit of advice on partitioning, please. I currently dual-boot Xubuntu and Windows 7. I've now got to the happy situation where I no longer need any Windows applications.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Question

Hi Nige On 10 March 2012 14:32, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi A bit of advice on partitioning, please. I currently dual-boot Xubuntu and Windows 7. I've now got to the happy situation where I no longer need any Windows applications. Consequently I'd like to delete

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Question

On 10 March 2012 17:15, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Hi Nige On 10 March 2012 14:32, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi A bit of advice on partitioning, please. I currently dual-boot Xubuntu and Windows 7. I've now got to the happy situation where I no

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Question

On 10/03/12 14:52, Liam Proven wrote: Should be fine. You're not using WUBI or anything like that? What does your partition layout look like? I share Liam's concern about WUBI. A lot of folk seem to use WUBI and think they have 'installed' Ubuntu. This is not the case. Just in case you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Questions

On 14/05/07, I C McNab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Greenwood wrote: One thing you could look at is using LVM, which can resize the partitions later. It's probably not the best thing to try if you're new to Linux, especially to use for the / partition. The other thing you can do is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Questions

Neil Greenwood wrote: snip Here's the link I mentioned originally: snip What a link-fest! Dw i'n dysgu cymraeg. Mae fy merched i byddwch yn mynd i'r ysgol gymraeg. So I'd like to be able to understand them! Hwyl, Neil. Neil Thanks for all the links. It'll take me a while to work my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Questions

On 12/05/07, I C McNab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alec Wright wrote: I recommend 15-20GB for / (my / is 15GB on a 250GB), 1-3GB for swap (just to be safe... i have 3GB on my 250GB) and make the rest /home But 20GB and 3GB are a bit excessive; you could easily get away with 10GB and 1GB

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Questions

Neil Greenwood wrote: One thing you could look at is using LVM, which can resize the partitions later. It's probably not the best thing to try if you're new to Linux, especially to use for the / partition. The other thing you can do is leave some empty space at the moment, in case you guess

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Questions

Thomas Steffen wrote: On 4/30/07, Stephen Garton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 2. How much space do I _need_ for /? A normal installation of Ubuntu (most of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, some of edubuntu, development tools, TeX and some simulation software) tends to come out at 5GB for me. You can get a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Questions

On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 07:12 +0100, I C McNab wrote: I'm about to install Fiesty on a new 500Gb drive (to boot first in a dual boot set up with XP on a 160Gb drive in same box). I'm going to keep things simple: partitions for /, /home, and /swap, following advice in this thread. But how

[ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Questions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Morning All, I'm after some recommended reading, If I might enquire. First background: Current Set-up (Laptop): 80Gb HD split into 2Gb Swap, 12Gb /, and the remaining 60Gb (all of what is available) as /home. The questions I am looking for answers

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Questions

On 4/30/07, Stephen Garton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Morning All, I'm after some recommended reading, If I might enquire. First background: Current Set-up (Laptop): 80Gb HD split into 2Gb Swap, 12Gb /, and the remaining 60Gb (all of what is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Questions

Kris Marsh wrote: 3. As you've noticed, you can't resize a currently mounted partition. What you need is some sort of live CD for gparted. Check the gparted website ;-) Or just boot the Ubuntu install CD (the desktop version). It has gparted already installed. Regards, Tony. -- Tony