How Do I Create a Root Partition in Ubuntu?
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How do I manually create a partition in Ubuntu?

If you have blank disk

  1. Boot into Ubuntu Installation media. …
  2. Start the installation. …
  3. You will see your disk as /dev/sda or /dev/mapper/pdc_* (RAID case, * means that your letters are different from ours) …
  4. (Recommended) Create partition for swap. …
  5. Create partition for / (root fs). …
  6. Create partition for /home .

How do I partition a hard drive for Ubuntu installation?

In the hard disk partition table menu, select the hard drive free space and hit on + button in order to create the Ubuntu partition. In the partition pop-up window, add the size of the partition in MB, choose the partition type as Primary, and the partition location at the beginning of this space.

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