Thanks a lot . This worked perfectly. I've never used links in Windows before. They call them Junctions for folders. I just copied over my Documents and Download Directories to my D: drive and put Junctions on the C drive to these after removing them from that drive. Thanks a lot for the pointer. Cheers, Jim
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 3:32 PM o1bigtenor via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 2:04 PM Jim Ruxton via talk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I have a partitioning question I am hoping someone can help with. I have > > 2 hard drives in my laptop , a SSD and a standard hard drive. I dual > > boot Windows and Ubuntu. Here is an image of my partitions from gparted. > > The top is my SSD and the bottom is my other drive. > > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u7Rcn1_W95Z1PlV122IhPdR1VXJFxkAJ/view?usp=sharing > > < > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u7Rcn1_W95Z1PlV122IhPdR1VXJFxkAJ/view?usp=sharing > > > > . > > > > My Linux system except for Home (which has it's own partition on the > > other drive) is on the SSD as well as Windows. I'm running out of room > > on the Windows partition on the SSD. I have other partitions on the > > other drive that has lots of space. Is there a way I can allocate some > > of that to Windows? For example as you can see in the image I have an > > ntfs data partition of 100 Gigs that is almost empty. Any way to take > > some of that and share it with the Windows SSD partition? Otherwise what > > would people recommend to give Windows more space based on what I have > > available. I should also probably move some of my Linux out of the SSD > > but not sure what? I assume if I do move stuff I would need to do it > > from gparted running on a USB stick? Thanks for your suggestions. > > > Dunno if this is a 'good' idea but I've used this moving info from shorter > term > storage to longer term storage. > > Setup a similar directory on the drive that has space (dunno if M$ will > let you > do this) and then use scp to move all the directories and files. Next you > setup > a soft link from almost full to the empty (sort of) disk. > > I've been doing this from connecting files/directories from the single > hard drive > that is the operating system and the Raid-10 array which is where I want > most everything that I don't want to lose. > > This might just be a 'hacky' solution and I really have no idea if it will > work > on M$ but it does get the job done. > > Regards > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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