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I portioned my hard drive when installing suse.(first time) It appears that I have too much space for suse and not enough for windows.(in my oppinion) can i reportion or am i stuck. or am i able to split the drive i have for suse and take some of that to window and have 2 hd's for windows.
sorry. new at this.
It is one hard drive at 250gb now split with 125gb for suse and 100gb for windows. and the rest is backup.
I just wanted to know if some of the 125gb for suse could be moved back over to the windows some how. can I make a partition in suse keep 50gb and move the 75gb partition to windows?
Let me get this straight. I can have a partition that I will beable to access from both linux and windows? would this be something just for downloads (movies, music, ect...)
thanks for the help. linux is much nicer than windows, I just have alot to learn.
FAT32 partitions can be successfully accessed (both Read and Write) from Windows as well as Linux, and thus it is an ideal choice for creating a shared/common partition.
That being said though, if you've got 100G allocated to Windows and 125G allocated to Linux, that's a huge, err, very generous amount being given to both - usually resizing questions involve situations where, say, a 20G drive that was originally split as 12G for Windows and 8G for Linux now is desired to become an even 50:50 split. I guess my point is - Is it possible that you are carrying around a lot of data in both systems? If you're dealing with large numbers of huge files nevermind, but if you are handling moderate sized files and happen to have a lot of unneeded data laying around, you could avoid the risk of resizing by deleting anything you no longer need
I bought this computer a few months ago and I came with a 250gb hard drive. I have used about 30gb for windows. but windows programes generaly take up more space, I may be woried for no reason, I still may never use all that space. But never the less... a FAT32 sounds good to me, If I understand correctly I can download a mp3 file for example, from either linux or windows and access the same file and play it in both o.s.? should this FAT32 file be made in windows or linux? cause I want to do that with the space that is in linux
one last question.
If i creat the FAT32 drive out of the 125 in suse. will windows automaticly see it or will I have to do some work in windows to see it?
Windows does you thinking for you---Linux makes you think for yourself. Only you can know which will give the best results....
Windows automatically mounts every last partition that it finds---except of course the weird linux ones.....
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