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[Tom <question78626@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #78626 on Ubuntu changed:
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Tom requested for more information:
There's a lot of slight inaccuracies in there.  Don't worry though!
Nothing radical or unexpected :)  You might want to skip this and just
see my question at the end ;)

Windows can't read or write to linux partitions and is very much
restricted to just Windows partitions.  Linux (and Mac and most other
OS's are quite happy read or writing to any of each others partition
type and even from/to Windows ones.  So keeping most of your data on
Windows partitions makes sense except it can't handle really long file-
names so avoiding saving web-pages to a Windows partition ;)

Gpart is a very different program from gparted, it's great for data-
recovery scenarios to help with rebuilding/creating a deleted partition
table for a drive.  However gparted just edits an existing table - hence
GPartEd.  The G stands for Gnome which is the default Desktop
Environment in Ubuntu (and many other distros).  Kubuntu uses the K
Desktop Environment so it has a different front-end for many of the same
tools, in this case QtPartEd.  If you are using Ubuntu then steer away
from packages starting with Qt or K.  If you are using Kubuntu then aim
for those and steer away from packages starting with G.  All that would
happen is that you would download and install the other DE giving you a
choice of either at login.  Some people do it deliberately so they can
check out the differences between Kubuntu and Ubuntu without having some
extra multi-boot thing going on ;)


First of all, the crazy Windows way of refering to partitions is irrelevant to linux.  Each physical drive gets it's own name such as sda, sdb, sdc, sdd and so on.  Within each drive, each partition is numbered chronologically as they are created.  So within sda you might find sda1, sda3, sda2, sda4.  Each drive can only have 4 Primary Partitions but you can choose to make one of these an "Extended Partition" which can then hold quite a few other partitions but of course it can't hold primary ones, they have to be "Logical Partitions" instead which isn't normally something you would notice.

It's unclear what you are making these partitions for.  If you are
installing Ubuntu then different sizes might make sense but should be
fairly easy for us to suggest alternatives.  If you are adding different
partitions for "Music" and "Video" or something then that's when you
really need to worry about "Mount Points".

So the question is - are you just setting things up to install Ubuntu?
or are you doing something advanced?

Thanks, good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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