I have 1 drive on my laptop, its 500GB drive.
I separated it into 2 partition. 100GB is primary for OS. And whats left is. For Data Storage with NTFS format. I already prepared that 100gb just for ubuntu, formatted it to ext4 and set the point to /. But when I click install, it telling me that it will destroy everything thats on sda, why?
Hi Quenyan,
Almost is my impression, you are not following the standard basic manual procedure to install Ubuntu. Can you verify?:
- Select "something else" manual option in typical installation.
- Erase space you want to install (it have to appears like "free" space).
- Then create 3 partitions in that 100Gb, in order:
Swap (size of your RAM, more or less).
Root (/) (20-30Gb). Ext4 system.
Home (size of the rest of your 100Gb). Ext4 system.
Device for boot loader (sda-your selected drive). - Click install. Do "destroy" alert appears?
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Luckilly it did not destroy my other ntfs partition, i did only 100gb on root / only because I think i dont need any swap since my ram is above 2GB(its 4), and lastly any important data is stored on my ntfs partition. But I can try reinstalling the way you say, does it make it better, faster, or any good in any way?
After re-read some articles about swapping, I decided to reinstall mate by this setup 6GB on swap ( my RAM is 4GB, based on ubuntu recommendation the swap size needed for hibernation should be around 6GB), 40GB for the root, and rest for home. Well I missed the hibernation stuff, I thought it wasnt necessary but since my RAM is still under 32GB, I think its a must for that hibernation feature and maybe speed up my laptop too. About the alert, its still there, but now its showing the right partition number on which one that needed to be formatted instead of showing "partition #1 on sda will be formatted, even tho the 100GB space is located at sda5" this time swap, root, and home is at sda4,5,and 6, so its showing "partition #4,5 and 6".
Ok, I think is good decision. But note that if you want to preserve ntfs data partition in your disk, you'll not be able to do "full disk encryption", what is not so good for your privacy.
I'll recommend you that, if you can, save your important storage data in external drive as a backup (which is also safely), and later do a normal Ubuntu full disk encryption installation, not manual. If you don't have enough experience in Ubuntu, your important data will be safely stored externally. This is extremely important, and this would give you the ability to experiment with your disk some googling configurations.
Remember: try and enjoy!!
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I agree Tim, the first step of any installation is always "BACK UP ALL YOUR IMPORTANT DATA". You never know what will go wrong when doing an installation. Once you write over what you need it is hours of work or totally lost data. Storage is cheap today. USB drives and portable drives can all be had for low costs. Why take the chance? We read over and over here that people installed to the wrong drive and lost data.
Also don't for get to back up things like you bookmarks that are not in your home file. I also keep a list of software I want to install after the OS installation, and hyperlinks to any PPA's. In other words, back up, back up and back up.
There are other reasons to so that too. I recently had my hard drive crap out, and had to replace it, but because of back up, I did not lose data.
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I did backup my files, I backup-ed them to my phone's storage, that's why I experimented installing ubuntu on only 1 solid root ext4 partition. It just works, albeit might not the best way to install Ubuntu based on the recomendation. Thanks everyone for kind answer. wish ubuntu mate the best os ever.