On Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 12:38 AM Jim Ruxton via talk, <
talk@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.
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 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