Can I take some space from Win partition, and expand this one to it? Shrink this large and get some unallocated space and then this one with 10gb expand and merge with that one? I know how to do it, but I don't know will something happen to Windows files?

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Just a thought...isn’t that view in #14 as seen by the user alma when logged into the GUI?
And, therefore IS on the 30GB partition at /home/alma ??

I can’t help with how to do an installation from the GUI...I always do them from the command line, as root...but I’m pretty sure they shouldn’t be done by an ordinary user...

I personally wouldn't touch the Windows partition(s). I would revamp your Linux partitions to read 20GB /, 20GB /home, 8GB swap (I assume that you have created that much swap because you want to hibernate a system with 8GB of RAM). If you're only testing Linux and don't plan to create a lot of large video/music/document files then that should do you. Remember as well that you can access the Windows partition through Files and save such files there.

However, what I would suggest is that you create a new thread for the topic of resizing your partitions so that you get more visibility for your question. Note that your partition UUIDs will change (for swap and /home) so you will also need to change your /etc/fstab file at some point.

Hopefully someone can step you through the whole procedure but if you have any doubts or issues, come back on this thread and leave a post and I'll pick it up.

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Thank you for yor help. Just one more question. Can I just reinstall linux, and give him more space on this partition?

Yes, you can. That would be a simpler solution.

An extra note is that you *can* reduce the size of that Windows partition (from the right, of course) if you know what you're doing, but I personally would suggest that if you decide to do that then you do it with a Windows-based partition manager live disk such as the free MiniTool Partition Wizard. I personally have found that resizing partitions with filesystems seems to be more successful if I use that software for resizing Windows partitions, and GParted Live for resizing Linux partitions. As they say, your mileage might vary.

Of course, if you're going to be playing about with partitions, it is always best policy to ensure that your data is backed up safely somewhere in case things go awry.

That's a good question. I haven't seen that GUI software installer before. Usually GUI installers ask for your password so that they can elevate to root for the actual installation.

AlmaOs, which software were you trying to install?

OK, thank you so much. I will probably just reinstall it, because I don't have anything here so it doens't matter. But I don't want to mess up something with windows partition, so I won't shrink it's partition.
Thanks!!

I am trying to install QT Creator, but I have launched the installation from terminal, I think with sudo privileges.

Great. Let us know how you get on.

When you get to the point that you consider this thread to be resolved, remember that you can mark it "Solved" (see "Thread Tools" at the top of the thread). You can still come on and post on the thread after you've done so.

Ah, that is QT Creator's specific installer then. I have no idea what part of itself it is trying to install and where, but unless you find documentation or advice that suggests the contrary, I would suggest that you just accept the defaults when you get to installing it again.