Thanks guys for the tips on Gparted. I had already gone ahead with
using links. I'm not much of a Windows person so get nervous moving
stuff around in there. I discovered that I couldn't move the folder
(Program Files) to a drive other than the one that Windows was on. Super
frustrating. Anyway I freed up enough space moving a couple other
folders. I just wasn't sure if Gparted could join 2 different physical
drives to make it look like 1. Unfortunate there is a couple of programs
that I need to use Windows for. Thanks again for all the help.
Jim
On 2021-03-28 12:51 p.m., Russell Reiter via talk wrote:
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:04 PM William Park via talk
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 3/28/21 7:30 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote:
For any future issues you might want to take a look at gparted.
You can resize and reformat disk volumes with comparative ease.
I've used it many times without losing data and without having to
resort to my backups.
Gparted gives me problems when formatting USB drives that need to
boot. If you partition a USB drive with "fdisk" and with "gparted"
and compare the MBR, you will see gparted puts lots of data into
MBR whereas fdisk modifies just the partition table.
I don't think I've ever actually partitioned a usb drive. I've only
used dd to create a boot usb via a ready made distribution iso.
I have used gparted to revert GPT to MBR when I was dealing with UEFI
issues, but that was more about me crawling up the learning curve than
anything else.
I believe most, at least the most mainstream linux distros, are
installed using GPT as it can handle drives larger than 2tb.
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