On Thu, 07 Mar 2019 20:27:46 +0000 Mike Small <sma...@sdf.org> wrote:
> The Linux partitioning tools (that the installation programs use) > claim to be able to shrink existing partitions to make room for a > Linux partition, but I've never trusted that. Could be paranoia on my I've used resize2fs to shrink and expand filesystems on a number of occasions where booting a gparted image was not a good option. Works reliably although as always have a backup in case something does go wrong. Bonus: at some point in the recent past the LVM tools acquired the ability to invoke resize2fs directly saving the need to resize in multiple steps. ZFS and Btrfs avoid the problem entirely since they don't use traditional partitions or volumes. XFS filesystems cannot be shrunk. > part. I'd be especially careful when Windows is involved, but I have > no recent experience with it. If it were me I'd put Ubuntu on the 2nd > drive and leave Windows with what it originally had. I haven't If you don't go the WSL route then do this. Keep the two separate. EFI dual booting can tricky anyway, but doing it on a single device is extra tricky. Running your Ubuntu in Hyper-V is also an option to consider. Not only do most Linux distros run just fine in Hyper-V, installing Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS in Hyper-V is formally supported. -- Rich Pieri _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
