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I tried to install Ubuntu 16 (and later 18) on an external SSD drive. It is not my first time to install Ubuntu, but this time I tried to make a portable boot. I formated the SSD first, and tried installing Ubuntu with a USB.

As soon I tried to make a partition in the empty space, I get the following listed:

emptyspace - 33 mb

ext4 - xxxxxx mb (the total size of SSD is 256GB, so the rest is here)

emptyspace - 10 mb

I cannot remove these empty spaces of 33 and 10 mb, but I don't care about that. As I try to continue to install, I get a pop-up saying that there is an offset of 3540 (or something) bytes, which leads to very poor performance. Then it instructs me back to the partition menu and remove the empty spaces (which I can't). I cannot continue with the installation.

I can't figure out what the problem is, and whether it solvable. If someone has encountered this problem, please enlighten me.

Andrej
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Thanks for the reply's. Making a partition with gparted did the trick. Thank you. It only left 1 MB emptyspace before the partition (as compared to 33 MB from partition table).

@mikewhatever: I had a totally empty SSD and wanted Ubuntu to install in it, but for that I have to go to the partition table, otherwise it uninstalls my Windows OS. When trying to install Ubuntu in this partition table, it makes a partition, but leaves 33MB of empty space before the partition, and 10MB after. gparted leaves 1MB before and 0 after. On this partition Ubuntu accepted the installation.

Andrej
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