[GTALUG] Partitioning Question

[Jim Ruxton]

Thanks guys for the tips on Gparted. I had  already gone ahead with 
using links. I'm not much of a Windows person so get nervous moving 
stuff around in there. I discovered that I couldn't move the folder 
(Program Files) to a drive other than the one that Windows was on. Super 
frustrating. Anyway I freed up enough space moving a couple other 
folders.  I just wasn't sure if Gparted could join 2 different physical 
drives to make it look like 1. Unfortunate there is a couple of programs 
that I need to use Windows for. Thanks again for all the help.

Jim

On 2021-03-28 12:51 p.m., Russell Reiter via talk wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:04 PM William Park via talk 
> <talk at gtalug.org <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 3/28/21 7:30 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote:
>>     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.
>
>     Gparted gives me problems when formatting USB drives that need to
>     boot. If you partition a USB drive with "fdisk" and with "gparted"
>     and compare the MBR, you will see gparted puts lots of data into
>     MBR whereas fdisk modifies just the partition table.
>
>
> I don't think I've ever actually partitioned a usb drive. I've only 
> used dd to create a boot usb via a ready made distribution iso.
>
> I have used gparted to revert GPT to MBR when I was dealing with UEFI 
> issues, but that was more about me crawling up the learning curve than 
> anything else.
>
> I believe most, at least the most mainstream linux distros, are 
> installed using GPT as it can handle drives larger than 2tb.
>
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