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I have two installs of Ubuntu on the same drive can I merge the files/apps etc. from the smaller partition to the larger one?

Asked by Shaun Thorpe

I have two installed versions of Ubuntu 10.04 and would like to know if its possible to merge the files/apps into the larger partitioned install them clean up the hard drive for a dual boot partition.
 I attempted to paste a snapshot from the drive manager and was not successful.
 When I restart the computer I get this screen on startup:

Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic

Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic (recovery mode)

Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-21-generic

Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-21-generic (recovery mode)

Memory test (memtest86+)

Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)

Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic (on /dev/sda5)

Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic (recovery mode) (on /dev/sda5)

The drive partition is very confusing also, I intended to reserve a portion of the drive to later re-attempt to install XP for some software I have been unable to find for Linux.

120 GB:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 4925528 3644148 1031172 78% /
none 762988 288 762700 1% /dev
none 767200 440 766760 1% /dev/shm
none 767200 292 766908 1% /var/run
none 767200 0 767200 0% /var/lock
none 767200 0 767200 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda1 9561672 279224 8796652 4% /media/sda1
/dev/sda2 14805480 1015320 13790160 7% /media/sda2
/dev/sda7 82477744 2606696 75681352 4% /media/sda7

I can copy and paste the results of terminal inquiries, if given the command line.

I appreciate any and all assistance.
-Bugsley

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Richard Garvin (garvinrick4) said : 		#1

If you use two Ubuntu installs and one Windows install it is best to install Windows first then Ubuntu.
When you install Ubuntu make a / partition and a /home partition on first install and both Ubuntu installs
can use same /home it will be in your Places dropdown menu and have its own sdax, saves a lot of space
and easy to get to your own files.
Save space when you are installing OS only needs 7 gig or so for each and make a large home. Also save
space on drive to make a New partition in gparted and name is "data" or something like that and format it
in Fat32 and it will show up in Ubuntu as a sdaX and be in Places drop down menu and will also be in Windows
as a F: drive or what ever letter it gives it. Because both Windows and Linux can read Fat32. So you have a way
to have a partition that works between Windows and Ubuntu.
 So nothing wrong with have 2 Ubuntu and 1 Windows, 2 or 3 or 4 installs is not any difference to a disk drive.
Always put boot in sda not sda1 or any other just sda and you cannot go wrong.

Back up your Home and start getting your drive in shape.

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