How to make/add a new partition?
 

OK, for now I have nothing but Ubuntu on my PC. It's fresh :) Now i have one partition (i think)...

But i remember on windows machine i had two partitions - Local Disc C:\ and Other D:\
One is for Windows and other is for my all important documents.

Now, I would really like to make the same on Linux.

As far as i know the one partition that i have is / (root). Right? And no i need another one \ or something.. i don't know how it will be but it won't go like D:\ that's for sure.. maybe \ or / or something.. In other words, Please help! :D

Can i give labels for my new partitions too? like i had on windows (Local Disc and Other)

You can use fdisk utility for a new partition.
I would like you to google "fdisk linux"

Use a partition manager like qparted, to schrink the existing partition, and to create the new one.
Best is to download a live cd.
Then edit /etc/fstab to add the new partition.

I downloaded and installed gParted but it doesn't allow me to resize or create a new patition.. take a look.. what's wrong? :(

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/e4f099e219.jpg

Here is a good document at Ubuntu's wiki about partitioning. See especially Resizing, Extended partition (which is a good idea so that you can make more than 4 partitions eventually) and Reformatting (since after you make the partition, you will need to format it in order to use it).

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowtoPartition

You need to unmount the partition, in order to resize it.
I would suggest to boot from a live cd, and the resize

I don't have cd rom and i want to resize it.. why do i need to unmount it and can i unmount it?

does it mean i can't resize it now?

Mmm, that's odd - you've got unallocated space in between your Windows & Linux partitions. I'm not sure, I've never tried it, but I think you can move your ext3 partition to take up that space, move your swap as well (run swapoff /dev/sda5 first).
You'll have to use a live CD.

did you tried to unmount it?

so you have sda2 for linux
Is there something on sda1?
You can use sda1 for your data partition.

ok guys, i did it ! :) I used that unallocated space between win and linux partition and i made a new partition and gave it label "other" :) And it's ext2 with 3MB space. That's great! I can put all my word documents there now! :)

But when i went to computer:// and tried to open other (my new partition) it asked me for password (weird) and then when i gave it my password it showed error - "Unable to mount location. Internal error: No mount object for mounted volume" what's that :( What's happening :(:(

But when i chose to open my new partition from sidebar places section, it opened successfully.. weird again.. and i found lost+found folder in it (huh??)

lost+found is normally made with a newly formatted partition.

If you can make a cd, there is a 100Mb iso available for a livecd for gparted: http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...kage_id=271779

It would also be good to know if you already have 4 primary partitions before you attempt to resize. If you already have 4 primaries, you will not be able to use the new space. You can do 'fdisk -l' to see what your partitions look like and report here if you want advice.

Try this

Here is the link to an introduction course on linux that many have recommended. It explains the general structure and terminology of linux and has a section on partitions.

http://www.linux.org/lessons/

Welcome to the project.

Is there something on sda1?