ZAVCXL0005

Installed Operating System

Current OS Log

• Windows
  • Configuration files
• Ubuntu
  • Configuration files

System

Hardware

• Laptop HP EliteBook 840.
• SSD 256GB.

Log

• Original partition:

sudo sfdisk -uS -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 31130 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot    Start       End   #sectors  Id  System
/dev/sda1          2048 499470335  499468288   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2   * 499470336 500084735     614400   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3             0         -          0   0  Empty
/dev/sda4             0         -          0   0  Empty

• Backup:

sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=zavcwl0035-20150605-sda.mbr bs=512 count=4096
sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 of=zavcwl0035-20150605-sda1.mbr bs=512 count=4096
sudo dd if=/dev/sda2 of=zavcwl0035-20150605-sda2.mbr bs=512 count=4096

• Resize partitions with gparted.
• Install Ubuntu 14.10 via USB boot image. New partition table:

Disk /dev/sda: 31130 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot    Start       End   #sectors  Id  System
   /dev/sda1          2048 125831167  125829120   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
   /dev/sda2   * 125831168 126445567     614400   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
   /dev/sda3     126445568 127475711    1030144  83  Linux                       #   500 MiB - /boot       ext3
   /dev/sda4     127477758 500117503  372639746   5  Extended
   /dev/sda5     127477760 169420799   41943040  83  Linux                       # 20480 MiB - /           reiserfs
   /dev/sda6     169422848 177233919    7811072  82  Linux swap / Solaris        #  4096 MiB - swap
   /dev/sda7     177235968 500117503  322881536  83  Linux                       #           - /home       ext4

Note: root partition first installed as ext4, then converted to reiserfs.

Partition

Device	Label	Size	Type	Mount	uid	gid	permissions
/dev/sda1/	OS	xx.xxGiB	ntfs	/windows/c	?	?	drwxrwx---
/dev/sda2/	SWAP	xx.xxGiB	linux-swap	swap	?	?
/dev/sda3/	UBUNTU	xx.xxGiB	reiserfs	/	?	?	drwxr.xr.x