liveVoyager 12.04 User Guide - Partitioning | |
PartitioningThe installation of any Linux system requires that the computer's hard disk is partitioned, in other words that be divided into sectors that incorporating components of the installed operating systems. Consequently also LiveVoyager required an already partitioned hard drive to be installed. Ideally are enough/mandatory two partitions: Tools for partitioningliveVoyager provides a very effective tool for hard drive partitioning: GParted. Partitioning your hard drive using GPartedIn liveVoyager Live session, GParted must be runned as Administrator, so run Terminal (Main Menu → Terminal) and type the command:
Menu Bar
Create a new partitionOn the toolbar, the New button allows you to create a new partition, if you have already selected an unallocated area (Pic. 8). In a new window you can choose the size you want, if the partition will be Primary, Extended or Logical, and finally the file-system type.
If you have made a mistake, you can use the 'Delete' button to delete the selected partition, or if you have not yet applied the operation, you can use the 'Cancel' button. Resize/MoveWhen you want to resize a selected partition (Pic. 9), press the "Resize/Move" button, and a new window will appear immediately. Use the mouse to decrease (or increase) the partition size, or if you prefer, use the arrows.
After given the command "Resize", click "Apply" otherwise no operation is performed on the hard disk.
IMPORTANT! Resizing NTFS partitionsResizing an NTFS partition requires a reboot!
RecommendationsGenerally it is recommended to reserve to liveVoyager system 10 GB of disk space. This space will be occupied by the system itself, by new programs that will be installed by the user and the users personal files (documents, music, movies, etc..). As for the SWAP space, you can refer to an old assumption, which states that the swap should be at least twice the available RAM. However, this was true when the available RAM was very limited (64/128 MB), but now RAM is very large, and we can say that the space reserved to the swap should not be more than 1 GB. 1. Complete documentation of GParted is located on the GParted website. |