Linux: Find Out How Much Disk Space Left On Hard Drive last updated June 9, 2013 in Categories BASH Shell, File system, Linux I am a desktop support professional with experience working in a corporate call center environment. When you install Linux for the first time, you will need to partition your hard drive during the install process. If you’re using one of the more friendly distros such as Ubuntu it will by default partition your hard drive in a logical manner (this is called guided partitioning). However the partitioning it does is very basic, if you want to get more power from your Linux install, you will need to manually partition your hard drive during the installation. Most people shy away from this thinking that it is too difficult to know what part of the file system should get it’s own partition and what the partition size should be. Things, however, are not as difficult as you might believe and I will attempt to give a quick guide to how you can manually partition your hard drive to get more out of your Linux installation (I use Ubuntu so everything will be biased towards that distro). Ubuntu Guided Partitioning To make Ubuntu easier to install for those not familiar with Linux, it provides guided partitioning. Basically, the installation process will partition your hard drive without you having to get involved. This is fine if you’re new to Linux or are just not comfortable partitioning your hard drive manually. However, guided partitioning is very basic, it simply divides your drive into two partitions. The smaller one will be the swap partition (this one will usually be no more than a few gigabytes). The larger part of the hard drive will contain everything else (i.e. Will house the root of the file system – /). While this type of partitioning is easy and will serve your basic needs, if you decide to manually allocate partition sizes for your hard drive you can get the following advantages: • isolate parts of the file system, so that they can be preserved if you reinstall the operating system (e.g. • Tell us some more • Upload in Progress • Upload failed. Please upload a file larger than 100x100 pixels • We are experiencing some problems, please try again. • You can only upload files of type PNG, JPG, or JPEG. • You can only upload files of type 3GP, 3GPP, MP4, MOV, AVI, MPG, MPEG, or RM. • You can only upload photos smaller than 5 MB. Screenshot and save for mac. • You can only upload videos smaller than 600MB. • You can only upload a photo (png, jpg, jpeg) or a video (3gp, 3gpp, mp4, mov, avi, mpg, mpeg, rm). Free font downloads for mac. • You can only upload a photo or a video. Building design programs for contractors. • Video should be smaller than 600mb/5 minutes • Photo should be smaller than 5mb • You can only upload a photo.
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