Ubuntu lets you free up this disk space in the course of installation, but if you’re unfamiliar with Ubuntu’s included Gparted disk-partition utility and with Linux partition-naming ...

Ubuntu's installation should partition the drive for you automatically, and unless you have any special needs (like if you're on a Mac), you can breeze right through the installation with no problems.

The fsckin w/ linux blog has a handy step-by-step tutorial on how to set up an encrypted partition in Ubuntu Linux systems to secure sensitive data . Skip to Main Content.

The process to change your UUID, edit your grub.cfg file and edit your fstab file is extremely detailed, and is explained in step-by-step in the Ubuntu Documentation entry "Moving Linux Partition." ...

Accessing Linux Files From Windows Is a Mess . There are a few tools that allow you to access your Linux partition from Windows.But again, none of them are perfect! For example, there's a free and ...

1] Change the partition table. Linux may format or label NTFS partitions in a way that Windows doesn’t recognise properly. This situation demands that users need to change the partition table to ...

As long as the disk scan shows no problem, you can create your required Linux partition(s), ... and set the BIOS to boot from the Linux partition by default. I'm running Ubuntu on a 2011 Mac Mini.