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[Tom <question78237@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #78237 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/78237

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Inside the "Manual Partitioning" section you'll notice the colour-coding
is different from gparted but it still shows the partitions dividing up
the drives in the same way?

Can you see sdb2?  Try to "Edit" it and set it's "Mount Point" to "/" as
the / marks the start of the linux folders.  The / shows the installer
where to put the OS & programs for Ubuntu.

Now "Edit" sdb3 and set it's "Mount Point" to "/home" because /home is
where all your data and setting are kept.  Having this on a separate
partition from the programs and system files helps keep the data and
settings much safer.  This makes your system much stronger and more
robust :))

Finally "Edit" sda3, the 2,5Gb partition to make that your linux-swap.
It helps to have the linux-swap on a different physical drive from the
OS & programs in order to get a slight boost in performance :)  The
drives read/write head doesn't need to move away from the linux-swap so
ram can swap temporary data and cached files faster :)))

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