On 2018-03-02 12:27, Dave Plater wrote:
On 02/03/18 13:12, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2018-03-02 11:22, Dave Plater wrote:
In your case you will have to use LVM to add the gained space to your root partition, this I've no experience of but I think you can use yast.
This is far from trivial. Needs backup, repartition, format, recover from backup, reinstall grub.
Which is, anyway, what I would do, but without LVM.
There were tools in Windows that could move partitions around, but I'm unsure in Linux. I think there was one, but I never tried. It is possible to grow a partition, at the end of it.
The only possibility without moving things is to add a /usr or /usr/something partition. And I would not do that. I would go the backup, repartition, restore route.
You can only shrink an ntfs gpt partition using windows 7 and up. Your idea of copying /usr to the new partition and mounting it separately sounds good.
Except that /usr currently is huge, bigger than /. I would try to find a directory or several inside /usr that add up to the available space in the new partition. But then, you end having two roots and two /usr/something partitions, all needing free space, wasted, in a disk that is already smallish by current standards... Not optimal.
Shrinking a windows partition in windows is easy even in virtual box with reduced ram.
When it works :-) If there is an inmutable file in the middle, you can't. Happened to me... In that case, the DVD installer might shrink it. Me, I reinstalled Windows from the recovery partition on the laptop, booted it, and before allowing any update (no internet) shrinked it. Now that I think: George, find out where the space is actually used in your "/", maybe there are things you can delete, like a huge log file or /tmp. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)