On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 17:32:47 +0800
George from the tribe
I noticed that /dev/sda3 for windows is only using about 45G on it. Since I hardly ever use windows, I was thinking of trying to take 14G off of that drive,
That's fine and fairly east.
split it into 2 partitions, and somehow append those extra 7G to each of the root drives in order to give my root more room.
That sounds very hard and complex -- and unnecessary. What version of Windows? Step 1, clean it up. Windows keeps a lot of junk around. You can do this from Linux -- look for /Windows/Temp and delete everything in it. Then look for /Users/$username/Application Data/Local/Temp (for all users) and delete everything in there too. Then boot into Windows. Run the System Cleanup tool. Tick all the boxes, let it clean. Run it again. Press "clean up system files". Tick all the boxes, let it clean. Empty the trash. In a terminal with admin permissions, type: chkdsk c: /f Reboot and let it run. Then you should be able to use Disk Management (Start | Run | diskmgmt.msc) to shrink the C partition. If it will shrink it as much as you want, great. If not, do as much as it can. Now boot into Linux again. Delete any pagefiles/swapfiles from your Windows drive. Now, make a Live medium and boot from that. Using GParted: [1] shrink the Windows partition as much as you want. [2] Move your first root partition up into the space you've freed up. [3] Count how much free space there is. Halve this number: call it x GB. [4] Enlarge root partition #1 by x GB. [3] Move root partition #2 to right after root partition #1. [4] Enlarge root partition #2 by x GB. That's it. Reboot the box. You should now have both root partitions bigger by about 50% of how much space you took off the root partition. No need for LVM or anything scary like that. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org