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Coming from a windows background I am fining myself overwhelmed by the massive amount of totally different resources available when it comes to learning Linux...

I have a fresh install of ubuntu server 12.04, with xRdp and VNC.

The install was put on an 80gb drive - the only drive in the machine.

I would like to create a partition on this drive, and say split it into 10gb (for ubuntu) and the remaining would be for storage of various files. - windows would give me c: and d: for example.

I seem to be struggling in finding a 'simple' step-by-step guide - the terminology between windows and linux is so very different so searching, using keywords I would usually use, yields all sorts of conflicting results.

I have installed gparted, though am now stuck..

Is there a step by step guide that will show me how to take my 80gb drive and split it into 2?

Thanks

Darren Wainwright
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You don't even need Gparted to do this though if you want to, use Gparted to format the entire 80GB to ext4.

During Ubuntu Server installation you are going to get the options for how to partition your hard drive. Select Manual Partitioning

Then do the following

/ - 10 GB (mark as bootable)

swap - 4GB (or 8GB)

/home - 66GB

Ubuntu server will be installed in / as well as the grubloader.

Quick read on swap

/home is the partition for all the media and stuff.

EDIT: @dougaroo has noted that this solution does not work for an existing installation. OP has noted that he has looked at a few tutorials. Here is one tutorial. After looking around, I found that it seems to be way easier to redo the installation if you want to create a separate /home partition. In the case that you cannot reinstall, the phrase you want to be googling for is

separate /home partition after ubuntu installation

Mr.Lee
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