My laptop used to have windows 7 which I had upgraded to windows 8.1 and then to windows 10 and along with them I used to have ubuntu. The disk partitions used to look like ([System Reserved], [recovery partition provided by dell], C [windows boot], E [documents, music and stuff], [swap], [ubuntu]).
Whenever I ran in a problem and had to reinstall ubuntu, I would do so using the something else option (create swap and / partition, both logical partitions).
Whenever I ran in a problem and had to reinstall ubuntu, I would do so using the something else option (create swap and / partition, both logical partitions).
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My hard disk crashed a few days ago and I had to replace it. So I installed windows 7 on it again and then upgraded to windows 10. Now I'm trying to install ubuntu like I always did.
But this time the disk space I leave for ubuntu is showing up as unusable in the setup. Windows has created a 450MB recovery partition this time and so (I think) the extra space which used to be marked 'free space' in disk management is now marked as unallocated (and so showing up as unusable in ubuntu setup).
The partitions look like this: ([System reserved], C, [unnamed Recovery Partition], E [documents and stuff], [unallocated])
[System reserved]: System, Active, Primary Partition
C: Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition
E: Primary partition
But this time the disk space I leave for ubuntu is showing up as unusable in the setup. Windows has created a 450MB recovery partition this time and so (I think) the extra space which used to be marked 'free space' in disk management is now marked as unallocated (and so showing up as unusable in ubuntu setup).
The partitions look like this: ([System reserved], C, [unnamed Recovery Partition], E [documents and stuff], [unallocated])
[System reserved]: System, Active, Primary Partition
C: Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition
E: Primary partition
If you have other operating system like Windows, you can install Linux as dual boot method. In dual boot method you will install Linux on the free disc space of your computer primary hard disc. You will get option to choose operating system when you will boot your computer. In this method also, you need Linux CentOS CD or USB hard drive or Stick. If you haven’t install this tool, look at the following link. How To Install And Use Ubuntu Tweak On Ubuntu. To remove unwanted junk files, open Ubuntu Tweak, and click on the Janitor option. Select the check the boxes to remove unwanted junk from your system, and click Clean button. Janitor will now start to clean up your system. Linux has a few built-in utilities that help provide that information. The df command stands for 'disk-free,' and shows available and used disk space on the Linux system. Df -h shows disk space in human-readable format. Df -a shows the file system's complete disk usage even if the Available field is 0. To install dpigs on Ubuntu, run the command below: $ sudo apt install debian-goodies. Now run the command below to see a list of 20 packages that occupy largest space on your hard drive: $ dpigs -H -n 20. For reference, below is the output of the above command on my system. How much disk space I have utilized? The simplest way to find the free disk space on Linux is to use df command. The df command stands for disk-free and quite obviously, it shows you the free and available disk space on Linux systems. With -h option, it shows the disk space in human-readable format (MB and GB).
I have no idea how the recovery partition got created. Although googling it suggests that it is something new with win 8 and 10, it never got created on my old hard disk. There is no option to delete the recovery partition, right clicking it in disk management gives only a help option which links to a page for disk management.
So any solutions?
So any solutions?
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Edit: I just remembered that when I did not have ubuntu installed, the E partition and free space, as a whole, would show up as extended partition in disk management, which is no more the case.