[GTALUG] Partitioning Question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 03:04:11PM -0400, Jim Ruxton via talk 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.

I guess getting a larger NVMe drive isn't an option?

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Len Sorensen