Manual disk partitioning guide for Ubuntu 11.04 | Linux Today

Manual disk partitioning guide for Ubuntu 11.04

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 9, 2011

[ Thanks to finid
for this link. ]

“This tutorial assumes that you are going to create partitions
for a standalone installation of Ubuntu 11.04. If you are going to
create partitions for dual-booting with Windows or another Linux
distribution, a future article, to be published soon, will provide
instructions on how to create partitions manually, when
dual-booting.

“On a default installation of Ubuntu 11.04, the installer
creates just two partitions; the first for /, the root directory,
and the second for Swap. When creating partitions for installing
any desktop Linux distribution, my recommendation is to create the
following four partitions.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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