I'm planning to steal some of my Windows 7 partition to increase size of my Ubuntu on my dual-boot as I explained here (just waiting til I can buy some more internet allowance so I can download a Live iso - my internet access is via tethered smartphone). While waiting for my piggy bank to fill, I had a look at my system with Disk Utility, and found my Ubuntu partition is "misaligned by 1024 bytes" which may result in very poor performance." (Screenshot attached)
The laptop is giving less-than-optimal performance, but this may very well be because I smashed the screen and fed coffee to the keyboard. I use an external monitor and usb keyboard and mouse now, so my laptop is a desktop... but who knows what other destruction I have caused the machine's innards? Anyway, I'd like to fix this "misalignment" issue - but not if it means I have to reformat and lose my music/video/other collection (yes, backup backup backup... but it would be such a pain - plus the "poor" performance isn't that poor, and as I already wrote, there are many other possible reasons why performance isn't as good as what it was).
So, does "repartitioning" in this case mean reformating/whatever and losing my files? Or have I misunderstood this? What exactly does this repartitioning entail?
Another quick question: I said that I'm waiting til I can download an Ubuntu Live iso before shrinking the Windows 7 partition and giving the extra freed-up disk-space to Ubuntu. Obviously I don't have an Ubuntu iso. However, I do have a kubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso and a lubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso. I could use one of them rather than having to download an Ubuntu image, right? But I'm not a Kubuntu or Lubuntu user, I don't know what the required tools may be called... so can someone perhaps enlighten me on this too? Cheers.
The laptop is giving less-than-optimal performance, but this may very well be because I smashed the screen and fed coffee to the keyboard. I use an external monitor and usb keyboard and mouse now, so my laptop is a desktop... but who knows what other destruction I have caused the machine's innards? Anyway, I'd like to fix this "misalignment" issue - but not if it means I have to reformat and lose my music/video/other collection (yes, backup backup backup... but it would be such a pain - plus the "poor" performance isn't that poor, and as I already wrote, there are many other possible reasons why performance isn't as good as what it was).
So, does "repartitioning" in this case mean reformating/whatever and losing my files? Or have I misunderstood this? What exactly does this repartitioning entail?
Another quick question: I said that I'm waiting til I can download an Ubuntu Live iso before shrinking the Windows 7 partition and giving the extra freed-up disk-space to Ubuntu. Obviously I don't have an Ubuntu iso. However, I do have a kubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso and a lubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso. I could use one of them rather than having to download an Ubuntu image, right? But I'm not a Kubuntu or Lubuntu user, I don't know what the required tools may be called... so can someone perhaps enlighten me on this too? Cheers.
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