I have a copy of Linux that lyes idle next to me. I am running windows currently, and i don't want to mess it up. I want to be able to boot into windows, or Linux off my one harddrive. How might one go about doing this? I know i must "partition my hard drive" But how?
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How do i split my harddrive?
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Some Linux distributions utilize ntfsresize which allows dynamic resizing of NTFS partitions, and that coupled with the traditional partitioning tools available on whatever Linux distro you have will let you set up partitions in the freed up space.
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I have a copy of Linux that lyes idle next to me. I am running windows currently, and i don't want to mess it up. I want to be able to boot into windows, or Linux off my one harddrive. How might one go about doing this? I know i must "partition my hard drive" But how?
When I was screwing around with Ubuntu and Gentoo, they both did it kinda on their own. You just tell them how much room to let Windows keep.
What linux distro do you have? If it's Gentoo, prepare to put a gun to your mouth.
When I was screwing around with Ubuntu and Gentoo, they both did it kinda on their own. You just tell them how much room to let Windows keep.
What linux distro do you have? If it's Gentoo, prepare to put a gun to your mouth.
Sorry to bump this.... I was gone for a while. I have ubuntu. I just want to give 20% of my harddrive to it, with out destroying my data.
gparted (which the Ubuntu installer uses) has worked flawlessly for me twice when resizing NTFS partitions on both of my laptops. Though I use Gentoo myself on most of my systems, I install it using the Ubuntu liveCD. It works very well and is very easy to use, but as with anything involving modifying hard drives in any way, back up your data first if it's important to you.
Here's another idea for you: Shrink the Windows partition as much as you can, while still allowing enough room for games. Create a ~20GB partition for Ubuntu, then create an ext3 partition using the rest of the space during the install, and mount it under /home. Them go to www.fs-driver.org and install that under Windows. This will allow read/write access to your /home partition under Windows, assuming you're running anything pre-vista. Keep your music/movies/whatever there, so you can access it all from both operating systems. Note that this may only be worth the trouble if you actually think you'll use Linux, rather than just installing with it to see what it is and then forgetting about it.
I've heard that NTFS3G under Linux provides reliable read/write access to NTFS volumes, but I have no experience with it so I can't recommend it personally. Using the driver from fs-driver.org in windows was perfectly stable for me when I was still dual booting, except for the time I updated my BIOS and Windows thought all of my drive controllers were new hardware. Even then, all I had to do was reconfigure the driver, and no data was lost. Performance seemed good to me, but you will notice increased fragmentation on the disk if you do a lot of writing to it from Windows. It doesn't seem to place files as intelligently as Linux does.
If you have any questions or need any help with this stuff, feel free to PM me.
Here's another idea for you: Shrink the Windows partition as much as you can, while still allowing enough room for games. Create a ~20GB partition for Ubuntu, then create an ext3 partition using the rest of the space during the install, and mount it under /home. Them go to www.fs-driver.org and install that under Windows. This will allow read/write access to your /home partition under Windows, assuming you're running anything pre-vista. Keep your music/movies/whatever there, so you can access it all from both operating systems. Note that this may only be worth the trouble if you actually think you'll use Linux, rather than just installing with it to see what it is and then forgetting about it.
I've heard that NTFS3G under Linux provides reliable read/write access to NTFS volumes, but I have no experience with it so I can't recommend it personally. Using the driver from fs-driver.org in windows was perfectly stable for me when I was still dual booting, except for the time I updated my BIOS and Windows thought all of my drive controllers were new hardware. Even then, all I had to do was reconfigure the driver, and no data was lost. Performance seemed good to me, but you will notice increased fragmentation on the disk if you do a lot of writing to it from Windows. It doesn't seem to place files as intelligently as Linux does.
If you have any questions or need any help with this stuff, feel free to PM me.
NTFS3G
R/W with the new linux ntfs driver has worked well for me, but I don't really subject it to a lot of load.