Dual booting need more space from Windows


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Hello guys, I was wondering if Gparted partition Editor will allow me to take more space from Windows to my elementary OS partition without any issue and increase the size of the linux space. Anyone have experience doing this? I don't want to screw up my setup.

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I "think" you can do that. I don't know if it will overwrite any data from your Windows partition. Just do what I do. Have 2 different SSD's.

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usually ever better parition manager (which includes gparted as well the kde partition manager) will allow you to reallocate free space and even moving partitions. however, it might take long but i see no problem at all.

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Resizing the Windows partition via the Computer Management console is dead easy, just find the appropriate partition under Disk Management, right click and "Shrink Volume."

 

Haven't resized a Linux partition in years but reasonably sure GParted did the trick with very little hassle as well.. Parition->Resize/move if I remember right.

 

In other words, shrink one, expand the other, done.

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I've just resized a USB key using GParted on Linux without an issue, doing exactly what Max mentioned (shrink one partition, then extend the other partition.)

But as usual, backup your data before you go resizing it just to be safe.

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It is unfortunate that you still have nonfree software in your computer.


You need to defenestrate it (which means, either throw Windows out of the computer or throw the computer out of the window).


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