[GTALUG] Partitioning Question

Jim Ruxton jim.ruxton at gmail.com
Sun Mar 28 04:38:01 EDT 2021


I guess eventually I will have to do that Len. Just doing the bandaid
solution for now so I don't have to take my laptop apart.
Jim

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:19 AM Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> 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?
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
>
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