[GTALUG] Partitioning Question

[Russell Reiter]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 12:38 AM Jim Ruxton via talk, <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> 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
>

For any future issues you might want to take a look at gparted. You can
resize and reformat disk volumes with comparative ease. I've used it many
times without losing data and without having to resort to my backups.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted/amp/

I don't use MS windows so I can't speak to keeping that os functionally
intact when moving stuff around.

I have moved linux stuff from disk to disk on my desktop to grow storage
and add distributions over the years with very few puzzlements.

I have resized ntfs and fat data partitions with no real issues but I
usually practiced this stuff beforehand on a machine other than my daily
driver.


> 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
>>
> ---

HTH
Russell
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