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Can I create partition after installing Ubuntu?
To migrate to a separate home partition after installation, you’ll have to create a new partition (which may require resizing your existing partitions), copy the files from your existing home directory to that partition, and tell Ubuntu to mount the new partition at /home. …
How do I partition a disk for Ubuntu installation?
If you have blank disk
- Boot into Ubuntu Installation media.
- Start the installation.
- You will see your disk as /dev/sda or /dev/mapper/pdc_* (RAID case, * means that your letters are different from ours)
- (Recommended) Create partition for swap.
- Create partition for / (root fs).
- Create partition for /home .
How do I create a new partition in Ubuntu?
If you have free space or don’t need to resize a system partition, you can just install GParted and create the partition without restarting from a live CD – you’ll want to create an ext4 partition. Ubuntu makes it easy to mount the new partition – just click it under Devices in the file manager.
How does Ubuntu take care of the partitioning?
Ubuntu can manage the partitioning itself, it recognizes the windows and should prompt you with the install ubuntu alongside windows. selecting this option, ubuntu will create a new partition for you automatically without harming windows nor your data.
Do you have to reinstall Ubuntu after installing a partition?
If you don’t create a separate home partition while installing Ubuntu, you don’t have to reinstall Ubuntu from scratch.
How can I find out which partition Ubuntu is installed on?
I suggest you identify your partitions in Linux as Windows does not identify the contents of your partitons as windows can not read linux partition. If you wish to do this in windows , ask on a windows forums. According to your GParted screenshot and what you have told us, you can see that the Ubuntu installation root is installed on /dev/sda9.