On Thursday 29 May 2014 15:05:02 Dylan wrote:
On 29/05/14 14:45, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
On the computer of my wife which runs Windows 7, I have sliced of three partitions. /, 10 GB, home 4 GB and a small swap. I left 60 GB for her Windows. As this Windows does not expand due to the nature of her use I planned to get a bigger slice of the hard disk. I reduced the 60 GB to 50 GB and was planning to include this new partition into a happy Linux use.
The information I get if I want to add this partition I get the Info that it is not possible to create a partition on sda. A resize is only possible on sda1, the Windows partition.
You can only have a maximum of four primary partitions in the 'traditional' partitioning system. And in order to grow a partition, it must have the free space immediately after it on the drive. I'm assuming from the limited information given that you have:
sda1 - Windows (now 50GB) FREE 10GB sda2 - / (currently 10GB) sda3 - /home sda4 - swap
(or similar...) You need to move the sda2 partition to the start of the free space before trying to resize it, so you have:
sda1 - Windows (now 50GB) sda2 - / (currently 10GB) FREE 10GB sda3 - /home sda4 - swap
Various partitioning tools can do this.
I can't say if it's still true, but Windows used to play badly when its partition was reduced in size.
Dylan Above is precisely the actual setup. But the FREE 10 GB cannot be reached with the partitioner of Yast. Which partitioning tool would format this free partition? Suggestions please. fdisk or similar? The linux parts are formatted as Ext 4 but it would be okay to use Ext 3. This Windows 7 setup has not complained and plays well with the reduction of its reduction. -- Linux User 183145 using KDE4 and LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 13.1 (i586) Kernel: 3.14.4-30.gbebeb6f-default KDE Development Platform: 4.12.4 21:34pm up 1 day 3:55, 3 users, load average: 0.73, 0.58, 0.50 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org