Make drive similar to windows in ubuntu 16.04

Question

I have recently installed ubuntu 16.04 . Followed steps from internet and created root(24 gb) , swap(2 gb) and /home (remaining space which is more than 450 gb) . As I come from windows background. I want drives in similar fashion i.e. under computer folder I want to create different drives with different sizes (similar to windows drive d , drive e , drive f) . Please help me .

Answer 1

In Linux you can make partitions and mount those in directories. You can use 2 fixed locations and a personal named one.

/media/
/mnt/
/personal_directory/

• The 1st is used for removeable media such as floppy disks, cdroms, USB and zip disks.
• The 2nd is a generic mount point under which you mount your filesystems or devices.

There is no limitation to creating a mount-point anywhere on your system but by convention and for sheer practicality do not litter your file system with mount-points.

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If you want to add partitions install and start up gparted and carefully shrink the partitions you have now. This will get you "unallocated space". Divide that space up into the sizes you want and add a unique name to them (that is called a mountpoint).

We already have a good answer about partitioning here: How to resize partitions?

Example: I have a HDD called "discworld" (created during installation):

Partition layout is stored in /etc/fstab:

$ more /etc/fstab
...
# /discworld was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=22653238-5821-4c7c-9baa-99e938a6a259 /discworld      ext4    defaults      
...

• sudo blkid will get your the UUID you need at the beginning of the line you need to add. More about this.
• The directory (here discworld) and filesystem (here ext4) is set when you finished creating them with gparted. We have a wiki page about adding new partitions to fstab.