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  • Hello all, I recently discovered ubuntu and I'm loving it. I'm planning to use it as my primary Os. My only problem now is that my home available disk space is less than 10GB and that really keeps me from working on large files. I worked on this for 3 days in vain. I burnt a gparted live CD but don't really know what to do with it(i.e which drive is windows and which one is ubuntu's...). Here what gparted window reads: Partition File system mount Point Label Size /dev/sda1 ntfs Recovery 9.00 GiB /dev/sda2 ntfs System Reserved 100.00 MiB /dev/sda3 ntfs host 456.67 GiB unallocated unallocated 1.02 MiB All I really want is a large home folder in ubuntu, like 200GB at least. Please help. I've heard of ext3, ext4 etc...And also i used wubi for the dual boot install. Thank you...

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    You have a problem. You appear from this to be running Ubuntu on top of Windows. there is NO Linux partition listed. This is not good as it means you are losing a lot of performance. What you should have done is loaded Ubuntu as a dual boot with Windows, and created separate partitions for Ubuntu, this would have let the installer shrink the Windows partition. I would suggest splitting the Windows partition equally between Windows and Linux. You can manually shrink the sda3 partition now to half size if you wish, provided it is not full of files. Your best option is to check the documentation for your distribution to remove it without destroying Windows. Then re-install it onto the free space created when the Windows partition is reduced. Back up any files first, playing with partitions is risky, and also your Ubuntu files wil be remove when you uninstall this copy.

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What size is your HDD? 500gb? what you need to have done, was to partition your drive before installing ubuntu. that way you could allocate 200gb to your ubuntu install. make sure you have enough space on your hdd to do this. Also if you love ubuntu then why have a dual boot? just get rid of windows... ubuntu can do everything and more than windows can.

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How do I migrate to a real partition, and/or get rid of Windows entirely? Existing Wubi installs (9.10 and later) can be migrated using the following guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1519354 Existing 8.04 Wubi/Lubi installations can be upgraded to an installation on a dedicated partition via LVPM. The main site for LVPM is at http://lubi.sourceforge.net/lvpm.html and the guide and support forum is at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=438591. For 8.04 only, as an alternative to LVPM, the following script can be used: Download wubi-move-to-partition Open a terminal and run: sudo sh wubi-move-to-partition /dev/sda9 /dev/sda10 Replace /dev/sda9 with the partition where you would like to migrate the Wubi installation to, and /dev/sda10 with the appropriate swap partition (you can omit the second argument completely, in which case no swap will be setup). The two partitions must already exist and be empty (you can use any partitioning tool such as gparted to create them in advance). Note that the script will install grub as main bootloader replacing the existing bootloader, and it may not be easy to undo the changes (if things do not work as expected you will have to boot from a Live CD and replace/edit the bootloader manually). Also note that if you have multiple hard-disks, the disk order might have to be adjusted manually. How do I resize the virtual disks? For releases 9.10 and later, you can use the following guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1625371 For releases prior to 9.10, you can use LVPM, at http://lubi.sourceforge.net/lvpm.html As an alternative, you can use the following script to move /home to a dedicated virtual disk. Download wubi-add-virtual-disk, open a terminal and run: sudo sh wubi-add-virtual-disk /home 15000 Where the first argument is the directory to move to a new dedicated disk, and the second argument is the size in MB. You should now reboot. If you are happy with the result, you can now remove /home.backup. To undo the changes remove /home, copy rename /home.backup to /home and remove the /home line in /etc/fstab. Note that contrary to previous information, this script is not suitable for moving /usr. Experienced users may be able to do this manually, at own risk, following a process similar to that outlined in the file. (Do not rename /usr until the very last moment, as rsync is installed there.) To move /usr try enter recovery mode after you run sudo sh wubi-add-virtual-disk /usr 15000 and copy all folders in /usr.backup into new /usr and then fix sudo with chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo

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