Partitioning & Installing Ubuntu Desktop Part 2/2

Partitioning & Installing Ubuntu Desktop Part 2/2

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Partition Plan:
All of Ubuntu, all apps and data under a single 12 GB partition mounted at /. This will be in the single and only primary partition we make on this hard disk.
In the implied extended partition to contain all subsequent logical partitions, we will create a 1 GB swap space.
This machine has a 30 GB hard drive so with the remaining 17.x GB of space we will create a final partition to essentially hold the leftover space in a useful way until we have a more specific use for it.
We will create a final 17 GB logical partition mounted at /data.
This could possibly be used for large database files, hot backups or cross-host mirror backups or possibly re-partitioned in the future in building a dual or multi-boot machine.
For the installation of Ubuntu Desktop we set our hostname for this machine as 'matrix' and as on all of the machines in our infrastructure, we set the initial user as 'electric'.

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• ubuntu
• desktop
• 9.04
• install
• installation
• partition
• partitioning
• grub
• boot
• loader
• multiboot
• dual
• format
• hostname
• user

[ElectricLinux]

Matrix names are cool. I think it's good to try and use a good naming convention for computers, networks etc.

[pointblank941]

Thanks for the vid, i used ext4 instead of ext3 will that make a difference?

[ElectricLinux]

Ext4 is still very new and it has not yet been proven to be completely stable and there may be some compatibility issues. Personally, I lean towards the more stable previous revisions of all hardware and software and I will only use the Ext3 filesystem on my Linux systems. I only use the very latest version of something if I have a very specific need for a specific feature or performance capability. There is always a stability and/or compatibility tradeoff.

[MrShoy]

@ThePhilosophyBoy yes, you can make the space for your files as big as you want.

[yokhomano]

thank you for your guide, it helped me out a lot

[CaptChrisT]

This was very helpful. thank you!

I also name my computers The Matrix. (Especially my WiFi network) Not many people will see it but when they do I find it amusing.

[ThePhilosophyBoy]

Can you make the space for your files (17gb) as big as you want ?