[SOLVED] How to get more space on hard disk for fedora?
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Whether you're going to reinstall it or resize the existing partitions (as suggested above), you need to do the following:
Make more space for Linux:
Remove unnecessary files in Windows
Defrag it
Shrink it using your gparted from Fedora.
Please read the article I referred to (it contains a lot of useful tips, eg. after resizing the Windows partition, restart Windows a few times to make sure everything works)
Please report back once you have made space for Linux.
IMPORTANT: BEFORE DOING ANY OPERATIONS ON PARTITIONS, ENSURE YOU HAVE BACKED UP YOUR DATA!!!
Whether you're going to reinstall it or resize the existing partitions (as suggested above), you need to do the following:
Make more space for Linux:
Remove unnecessary files in Windows
Defrag it
Shrink it using your gparted from Fedora.
Please read the article I referred to (it contains a lot of useful tips, eg. after resizing the Windows partition, restart Windows a few times to make sure everything works)
Please report back once you have made space for Linux.
IMPORTANT: BEFORE DOING ANY OPERATIONS ON PARTITIONS, ENSURE YOU HAVE BACKED UP YOUR DATA!!!
What is gparted? I don't know anything about it. I installed fedora from live DVD.
Might be an idea to let us know what you want to do with Fedora
do you have a specific goal? Or is it just about getting to know Linux?
Fedora is actually an experimental research and development distro under Redhat's wings
You might be better off with CentOS , which is a gratis implementation if Redhat.
Regards harddrive space, you will find it much easier with more.
And the more the better.
That is not to say it is impossible with what you have, but the key is experience.
To ease yourself into things, try something like VirtualBox
This assumes you have plenty of space on windows
Since you have twice the RAM I presently have, I assume your CPU is also up to the task.
Then apply what you have learnt to an actual dualboot.
gparted is a GUI application which helps manage a hard drives partitions
It ia not usually included in liveCDs , unless they are tailored as a rescue system ( such as partition magic )
but as already pointed out, it can be installed if needed
Anyway, all seems on topic .. but I think we may need to guide OP and ignore 'partitions'
if OP can give 50GB to a vm, virtualbox is easy, and available on windows
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