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I have installed SuSE 9.1 on an old machine, got connected to the internet after a few days of trial and error and help from others. now that I can connect to the internet I want to download program languages to "program", but I want that extra 3.31 GB that windows has taken up. how do I get rid of that without getting rid of linux? i also want to use that space for linux. any way to do that without totaly wiping the drive and reinstalling SuSE??
well i want to use SuSE to do it, if it is able to. i want the maximum out of it... i thought i saw a "partitioner" somewhere when looking around trying to fix my internet problem (thats also fixed now). so... anyone?
if you windows partion is Fat 32 format, you can definitely use it in linux, just mount it. if it is NTFS, you have to find a way to transfer NTFS format into Fat32 or you can use some third party software like "captive NTFS" etc. the linux kernel 2.6 do partily suport writting a ntfs partions, but it is dangerous.
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