Hi. I have a 700GB Drive partitioned in 3 parts (C:,D:,E:) of which D:
and E: contain backups, software, documents, music etc… And i can at
any time re-install windows without partitions D: and E: being
effected.
How can i achieve the same with Linux. Meaning having 2 (additional)
partitions that a re-install of linux will not destroy. I can find no
specific (easy walkthrough), ‘HowTo’ information on this.
Though i prefer to have 2 (additional) partitions, i can combine to
have only one, but is there a foolproof way to (during install), that
the partiton will remain closed to any formatting.
Assuming you have all your data in /home in a separate partition, use
the expert or custom partition option to specify that you want Linux to
install only on / and leave the other partitions alone. That is how most
people upgrade from one version to the next.
Note that, unlike Windows, where every partition has to be accessed by
its letter, if you assign more than one partition to /home, you will not
see them in /home. Linux will use them as it sees fit.
You can have as many partitions as you like, though in your case it
would involve an extended partition with logical partitions with that.
Linux is far more configurable than windows and will only install where
you tell it.
In linux we don’t use drive letters but rather /dev/sda
then
sda1
sda2
Thanks for the info. I’m just used to windows asking where to install
the O.S (typically C:), and i can format or deleting/re-partition C:
without fear of my data dissapearing.
If i can (as you say), stuff everything into /Home, then all
(hopefully), should be well.
To be honest it’s times like this i need a finger to jump out of the
monitor and start waving side to side if i’m going to stuff up, or a
thumbs up if i’m going to do the correct thing. rotfl!
Here is a look at one of mine. Simple. But see all the red are Primary.
The blue is the extended so it is not a partition as such, the green are
Logical partitions within the green extended.
You can only have 4 primary
So I create 4 as extended and you can have as many Logical in there as
you want.
Just create your current storage partitions like that in the extended.
You can have linux partitions in there to as I have /home