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I am doing a fresh install of Ubuntu on an external hard drive so I can carry it around with me and use it on my Chromebook. (This is my first time doing ANYTHING with Linux)

I can make the USB installer from Windows and have that just fine. But, when I go into the Ubuntu setup and click 'something else' to partition my external USB 3.0 HDD things start acting up. For some reason every time I create a partition an extra little thing of free space that is 11 or 13 megabits in size keeps popping up.

In all the instructional videos I have watched this did not happen. But I kept creating partitions like the videos said. Once I was done I clicked install and it gave me a message saying that it would be a bad idea to install rn because it would not be safe so I clicked og back and looked up the message online.

It said to change my ext4 partition to xfs, so I did. Then it installed. But when I tried to boot from the hard drive it took me back to the install/try Ubuntu thing again. So I restarted again and then it gave me a select boot device black screen with white text.

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  • Logically the disk breaks up in to certain chunks, the partitions like to start on certain boundaries, not within a "chunk", so if you pick a particular partition size there's often a bit left over. Like a book having a gap between the next chapter starts. gparted or similar will let you fix that later (add the space to the partition to its left). The rest of it is probably to do with secure boot? https://askubuntu.com/a/228069/29073 – pbhj Feb 01 '19 at 20:51
  • Might just be you need to remove the install media before rebooting? – pbhj Feb 01 '19 at 20:58
  • I have already checked in my bios. There is no secure boot option. I looked online and it says that secure boot is automatically disabled. I have msi click bios 5 on a x470 gaming plus board. Thanks for your help. – Anthony Perry Feb 01 '19 at 21:03
  • Can you tell me what partitions you use so I can try it your way? – Anthony Perry Feb 01 '19 at 21:03
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    I have never seen the installer or gparted suggest XFS, and I do not think you can use XFS as / (root) only as a data partition. You typically need either an ESP for UEFI boot or a bios_grub for BIOS boot, and /. If larger drive often better to keep / as 25 or 30GB and use separate /home and/or /data partition(s). But too many partitions may make management of space more difficult. Installer now uses swap file, so not swap partition required. http://askubuntu.com/questions/743095/how-to-prepare-a-disk-on-an-efi-based-pc-for-ubuntu & https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskSpace – oldfred Feb 02 '19 at 15:03

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