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jacatone · 04-21-2007, 01:19 AM

I installed Ubuntu 6.06 as a dual boot with XP Pro. I decided to add Kubuntu as well to see the differences and similarities between the distros. I created the partition for Kubuntu using GParted but when I tried using the manual install setting in the OS, it gave me this confusing array of ext 2,3,4 and 5 as well as hda1 (ntfs), hda2, hda3 and Primary, Logical drives so on. Plus there were swap files to configure. Could someone give me a simple explanation of this whole Linux partitioning thing? Thanks.

04-21-2007, 01:19 AM	#1
jacatone Member (9 bit) Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 371	Don't understand the whole partitioning setup in Linux I installed Ubuntu 6.06 as a dual boot with XP Pro. I decided to add Kubuntu as well to see the differences and similarities between the distros. I created the partition for Kubuntu using GParted but when I tried using the manual install setting in the OS, it gave me this confusing array of ext 2,3,4 and 5 as well as hda1 (ntfs), hda2, hda3 and Primary, Logical drives so on. Plus there were swap files to configure. Could someone give me a simple explanation of this whole Linux partitioning thing? Thanks.