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Have Only One Partition And Want to Change OS!

Dixit Ram

4/28/23, 1:31 PM

I Have One partition only in my zorin os And now I have to move to Ubuntu. And i don't want lose my data

Tell me what shoud I do

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partitioning

Ravexina

4/29/23, 6:58 AM

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Ubuntu

vanadium

4/28/23, 2:15 PM

You never want to lose your personal data, and you are never going to lose it: you should have one, preferably two backups.

Even if you could install the new OS without installing, you should have a backup first. Something may go wrong while changing your system.

Yes, to change the operating system installed on a partition, it is preferred to reformat the partition. So you will erase your personal data as well, and after installation, place it back using one of your backup copies.

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Zeiss Ikon

4/28/23, 2:18 PM

Judgmental much? Yes, good advice, but the tone...

vanadium

4/28/23, 2:21 PM

@ZeissIkon I hear too much of the same: users must be made clear that it all starts or stops with a good data backup. Nothing else matters. Someone who does not maintain any backups does not value the data, although that person may not realize.

Dixit Ram

4/28/23, 2:26 PM

It can be possible to shrink volume like. Windows and then put data in that shrinked volume and install os in first partition

Zeiss Ikon

4/28/23, 3:10 PM

@vanadium Or, much more likely, a person without a good backup values the data, but doesn't know a good way to back it up. Thumb drives aren't it; they aren't reliable. Any other method adds up some cost somewhere, and not everyone has money to spend. If you don't garage your car with a good security system (and maybe an armed guard or two), you don't value your car, right? Default Ubuntu installation doesn't even segregate user data in a way that makes it easy to think about backup (say, putting it in a separated partition) by default...

Zeiss Ikon

4/28/23, 3:11 PM

@vanadium Don't forget, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar...

Zeiss Ikon

4/28/23, 3:14 PM

@DixitRam Changing partitions, however, can go wrong, and you still need a backup before you start. External USB drive aren't very costly; if you're in USA, Amazon can have one on your front step in a couple days. Another couple days to make the backup, if you have a lot of data (or a couple hours if you don't), and the same time again to verify the backup, and you're ready to proceed.

vanadium

4/28/23, 3:54 PM

@ZeissIkon Documents, Pictures, Movies, Videos. That is how default Ubuntu installation seggregates user data. b.t.w., I edited the message to make it less harsh ;-) Message remains, though.

Zeiss Ikon

4/28/23, 3:59 PM

@vanadium Okay, they must have updated that -- the *second* time I installed Linux, I partitioned manually and put /home on a separate partition (to more easily *not* reformat it) and a lot of personal stuff stayed on my ex-Windows NTFS partitions.

Dixit Ram

4/29/23, 4:56 AM

I Found SOLUTION :-https://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted

mchid

4/29/23, 5:58 AM

@ZeissIkon Ackchyually, you catch more flies with vinegar because it smells like rotting fruit.

vanadium

4/29/23, 8:57 AM

Nice you found a solution. Carefully read the red lines at the beginning of the article you are linking to, though.

Zeiss Ikon

4/29/23, 12:06 PM

To emphasize @vanadium 's advice: I've had partitions completely vanish when attempting to make very minor mods -- apparently, there was a bug in some versions of Ubuntu's partition manager (gparted was okay at the time, but wasn't part of the default install I had at the time).

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Have Only One Partition And Want to Change OS!

TH: มี Partition เดียวแล้วอยากเปลี่ยน OS!

RO: Aveți o singură partiție și doriți să schimbați sistemul de operare!

RU: Имейте только один раздел и хотите изменить ОС!

VI: Chỉ có một phân vùng và muốn thay đổi hệ điều hành!

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