Thread: Another dumb partitioning question-

here's drive looks (see attached screen capture)-

can see, sda1 way big. sda2 vista partition, hardly use (but can't kill- yet), , it's bit big too, not bad. sda3 /home partition. there anyway shrink sda1 , add sda3?? have make images of disk, blank it- over, , write images onto new partitions? scares me bit... anyway, thanks...


interesting side note, btw- compare sizes of vista , ubuntu install. i'm apt-get ***** too, install , sounds cool, , it's 7gigs, compared base install of vista's 30gigs...and that's w/o ms office installed either. vista home premium, , ff, anti-virus, malware, , lgihtroom, etc..

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there anyway shrink sda1 , add sda3??

yes, not within normal environment. can't change partition that's mounted, , / partition mounted if you're running gparted it. use live cd; either ubuntu install disk or gparted live cd.

don't need nuke them. shrink them , shuffle them along.

might need use windows' own partitioning tool resize ntfs partition. ntfs still microsoft's secret sauce. or people wrote gparted suggest:

when resizing boot ntfs partitions, advisable perform single operation only. after resizing, boot windows twice allow windows perform checking operations.

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