Hello, I am a noobie who needs help. I installed Back Track 5 R3 Gnome using a usb aside from Windows 7. At the time of the installation I chose for Linux to have 70 GB of HD space, so of course it stole some from the hard drive. However I only have 80 GB of hard drive on my windows 7. Is it possible to reduce the hard drive space in my Back Track 5 OS side so Windows 7 can have a little more usage, if so how? By the way my hard drive is 350 GB, I just have lots of software installed on Windows 7 lol.

Hi:

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Yes but since you have already allocated 70GB for you Backtrack distribution on a partition it's a little complicated now-

I only allocated 20GB for my distro and 1GB for the swap space-

You must not of shrank your Win's 7 partition before installing Backtrack?

The only way I can help you is to see all of the partitions on that computer.
The way to do this is to open the terminal and run this command: (as a root user)

Hello, and yes I did what you told me to do. I took a print screen of the results.

These are the results

This partition looks good and doesn't need to be resized.
This looks like your Win's 7 Recovery-


These are your Win's 7 Partions and all is good.
However this extended partition....I am not sure if it's one you created or the manufacturer's of your computer created. I need to find that out-

And your Linux Distro is on sda5 and sda6 is the swap partition that you created-
Looks like you need to do one of 2 things-
You can use a program/application called 'G-Parted' to re-size your Linux distro.(should of came with your disto)
If not it can be installed-
(Or) you can re-install Backtrack and make the partition for your journaling file system (/)ext3 only 20 GB
And allocate 1 or 2 GB's for your swap

70 GB is a tad overkill for your Backtrack-

Is this a Dell laptop?
If so do you know the model so I can look it up?

Be back to help you in a little while I need to find out how big in MB or GB Backtrack is and confirmation of the
Extended partition I'll either have to find the answer to that on your computer manufacture's website in the list of specifications.

Helpful websites:

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/tutorials/

BackTrack Dual Boot Install with Windows (Tested on Win 7) (If you have to re-install)
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/tutor...-boot-install/

I would recommend about 20GB for a Backtrack install:
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...ad.php?t=37106

Looking for instructions for 'G-Parted' and whether or not you should use it to re-size-
Me personally; I would re-install the distro and create a new partition for Backtrack it'self and create a new partition for the swap space; but that's just me

About G-parted; With GParted you can resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GParted
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php


Let me know what you want to do.