Actually it is very easy to install Ubuntu alike operating systems with data storage partitions similar to Drive D: to mimic tradition of Windows computers. What you need to do is just install Ubuntu like usual but create one additional large partition without attaching mount point to it. The result is you will always see one data partition ready to use just like you usually found while using Windows. Just because apparently many people asked it then I make this tutorial to help. As stated it is for Ubuntu alike, you can also practice this to Fedora, openSUSE, Manjaro, and others.

 (A Kubuntu laptop with New Volume displayed as data partition)

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This tutorial explains step by step to format a USB Flash Drive with GPT technology on Ubuntu. You do not need to install additional software thanks to the built-in Disk Utility tool. Not only to flash drive, you can also apply this tutorial to hard disk and other storage media drives. I hope this could be useful for you!

(Ubuntu Disk Utility after formatting a GPT flash disk drive)

GNOME Disk Utility is an awesome tool to maintain hard disk drives that shipped with Ubuntu. It's called simply "Disks" on start menu on 19.04, anyway. It's able to format hard disks and USB sticks, create and remove partitions, rename partitions, and check disk health. Not only that, it also features writing ISO into disk and vice versa, create ISO image of a disk. This tutorial explains in brief how to use it for 8 purposes. Let's go!

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On Ubuntu 18.04, you may want to automount your disk partitions. With this, you don't need to open the partition every time you want to access it. Also, this seriously helps if you work with LibreOffice with your documents in different partition. What you need is the built-in GNOME Disk Utility program and the setting is very easy. It's explained on the instruction below and it's also applicable to Ubuntu 17.10. To start the setting, open up Disks program from menu or simply run gnome-disk-utility from terminal.

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The only aim of this article is to save all devices and partitions from damage in a GNU/Linux system when you are performing any formatting action from the command line. This is applicable if you can show all partitions available in your system. There are some command line programs to do it. By using these, you can avoid any false formatting action or any other disaster (incorrect dd command, data loss, incorrectly formatted partition) because you will know exactly what device you want to format. They are fdisk, lsblk, blkid, and df. They are built-in tools in Ubuntu operating system.

As opposed to GNOME family system, Kubuntu has KDE Partition Manager as replacement for GParted. We can do many partitioning stuffs like GParted with it. Here, we will give an example about how to format a USB flash drive with KDE Partition manager. We use Kubuntu 15.10 to explain these.

Dual boot is a common method for those who want to try Linux operating system without leaving the current operating system, mainly Windows. Dual boot enables two operating systems or more to be installed in one computer. In Windows-Linux case, Linux can easily "read" the Windows partition including the NTFS partition, but Linux partition can be read by default in Windows without installing third party application. So, if you want to a quick access to any file in Linux partition while you are on Windows without rebooting, you might give DiskInternals Linux Reader a try!

Nowadays, many computer users have more than one operating system installed on their computer. Most of them use Windows and Linux at the same machine a.k.a dual boot. As we know, Linux operating system can access Windows partition easily without installing any additional stuff, otherwise Windows operating system can not access Linux partition. Well, if you are one of dual-boot users and want to access Linux partition from Windows, there are many additional applications you can try.