[GTALUG] Partitioning Question

[o1bigtenor]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 2:04 PM Jim Ruxton via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> I have a partitioning question I am hoping someone can help with. I have
> 2 hard drives in my laptop , a SSD and a standard hard drive. I dual
> boot Windows and Ubuntu. Here is an image of my partitions from gparted.
> The top is my SSD and the bottom is my other drive.
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u7Rcn1_W95Z1PlV122IhPdR1VXJFxkAJ/view?usp=sharing
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u7Rcn1_W95Z1PlV122IhPdR1VXJFxkAJ/view?usp=sharing>
> .
>
>   My Linux system except for Home (which has it's own partition on the
> other drive) is on the SSD as well as Windows.  I'm running out of room
> on the Windows partition on the SSD. I have other partitions on the
> other drive that has lots of space. Is there a way I can allocate some
> of that to Windows? For example as you can see in the image I have an
> ntfs data partition of 100 Gigs that is almost empty. Any way to take
> some of that and share it with the Windows SSD partition? Otherwise what
> would people recommend to give Windows more space based on what I have
> available. I should also probably move some of my Linux out of the SSD
> but not sure what? I assume if I do move stuff I would need to do it
> from gparted running on a USB stick? Thanks for your suggestions.
>
Dunno if this is a 'good' idea but I've used this moving info from shorter term
storage to longer term storage.

Setup a similar directory on the drive that has space (dunno if M$ will let you
do this) and then use scp to move all the directories and files. Next you setup
a soft link from almost full to the empty (sort of) disk.

I've been doing this from connecting files/directories from the single
hard drive
that is the operating system and the Raid-10 array which is where I want
most everything that I don't want to lose.

This might just be a 'hacky' solution and I really have no idea if it will work
on M$ but it does get the job done.

Regards