I recently switched my Win10 laptop to Kubuntu Linux, and this is my first experience with it. I'm facing some issues formatting and setting up my internal HDD. From the picture, you can see the drive and partitions are listed in the partition manager, but I only have about 30GB of free space, while it should be in the hundreds. I'm not sure how to resolve this, any beginner-friendly advice would be really helpful. Thanks!
For any work with the partitions on my machine, I rely on the AOMEI Partition Assistant for two main reasons. First, it handles everything I require. Second, it’s completely free. Just remember to click the apply button in the top left corner between steps. Good luck!
29GiB is assigned to the root partition, 208GiB to your personal directory '/home/carson'. Visiting this location will display the updated free space.
Was das eine Partition, die Sie erstellten, oder hat der Installer sie so eingerichtet? In der Realität sollten Sie nur zwei Partitionen benötigen – eine für EFI (Fat32) und eine für das Root-Verzeichnis. Wenn dies während der Installation geschehen ist, würde ich es neu installieren und mit den Standardoptionen für Wipe/Format durchführen.
The installer configured it this way. I’m not sure why it created four partitions by default or why only one is functioning. It might be related to switching from Windows, but I don’t know the exact reason.
AntonChigurh refers to that image while still utilizing "live usb" or "live dvd." If not, why are you attempting to reinstall or repartition the drive while running the OS? (This isn't the best approach, to be honest.) Once the installation completes and you reboot, stick to using the "carson" folder or directory... I’d show you mine, but it’s split across two drives—one has a partition, the other is /home/cretsiah. Your external USB 4TB drive holds your /home/carson files... Right now, it’s packed with nearly 2TB of games from Steam and Heroic. There’s nothing wrong with the setup you have. You shouldn’t be handling all your work and play files in the root partition—if issues arise with your distribution, having a separate home drive can help protect your important data. The fat 23/EFI partition is for booting from power-on, without it you won’t access the system. The root partition acts like Windows’ user "system" or the background processes you shouldn’t interfere with. The /home/carson is akin to your C: drive in Windows, where you normally operate—hope this makes sense.