Hi, I am trying to make a small but simple change to the suggested shrinkage of my windows partition for a new installation of openSuse 12.2.
Yast proposes to “shrink Windows partition /dev/sda3 to 183.64 GB”
I want to make this less, maybe 100 GB or 83 GB for example. I followed all the instructions for preparing my windows partition in the openSuse 12.2 reference/documentation, such as disabling virtual memory, and scanning and defragmenting- but I am not being prompted with a window that allows me to adjust the size of the windows shrinkage. How do I select, “shrink windows partition”? which is described in the openSuse documentation?
So I tried playing around with the settings. When I go to “edit partition setup” I can double click on sda3 and go to “resize” and change it there, then go to “accept”. However the suggested partitioning stays the same, it still says 183.64. What do I do to change the size of the proposed windows partition? Please help me.
I would suggest Parted Magica free download, boot from it and use gparted to resize the windows partition to leave the free space you want for your linux install.
the openSUSE installer will then choose that free space to install the OS in.
you could use other partitioning tools for this if you have one available.
I would suggest Parted Magica free download, boot from it and use gparted to resize the windows partition to leave the free space you want for your linux install.
the openSUSE installer will then choose that free space to install the OS in.
you could use other partitioning tools for this if you have one available.
Although,
When I go to “edit partition setup” I can double click on sda3 and go to “resize” and change it there, then go to “accept”. However the suggested partitioning stays the same, it still says 183.64. What do I do to change the size of the proposed windows partition? Please help me.
You should still be able to do it from there, but an easier option may be to note the partition details recommended by the installer, alter them to suit the sizes you want and manually enter the details in the ‘advanced partitioning’ section (or what ever it is called).
Sorry I can’t be more help, but I am unfamiliar with the installers partitioning tool as I setup partitions before I install.
On 11/18/2012 01:06 PM, JRO321 wrote:
> Please help me.
you can read around http://tinyurl.com/cgvbzba on this
(because i am for sure not a windows guru, and probably do not know
what i am talking about) but, i understand that windows does some kinda
strange [compared with Linux] things in the way it places files within a
partition…so, that (maybe) some parts of a file flagged as unmovable
might be at or near the beginning of a partition and the other end
somewhere differently entirely…in which case it becomes “impossible”
to shrink that partition to a size smaller than will allow the unmovable file to exist…
I suppose you wish to shrink the windows partition more than the maximum suggested amount. Your partition is , I am quite certain, pre-installed with some Windows “free” program/s. Windows puts some hidden system files towards the end of (what Windows programmers think) is a reasonable size of partition! The easiest way around is to move the pre-installed stuff to a temporary location, shrink the empty partition as you wish and then copy move back the shifted stuff.
However, if this the original/first and only HDD with pre-installed Windows OS, check out what partitions already exist! Pre installed Windows greedily hogs up 3 primary partitions and what more the so called C: drive may not be the first partition! There is usually a recovery partition and a “tools” partition in addition to the one massive C: drive.
I was on the wrong track earlier, I now see the issue is to resize smaller than currently allowed by the installer. I have somewhere a comprehensive list of preparations, I cant find it! Although this link is from another distro, it,s still relevant HowtoResizeWindowsPartitions
> I want to make this less, maybe 100 GB or 83 GB for example. I followed
> all the instructions for preparing my windows partition in the openSuse
> 12.2 reference/documentation, such as disabling virtual memory, and
> scanning and defragmenting- but I am not being prompted with a window
> that allows me to adjust the size of the windows shrinkage. How do I
> select, “shrink windows partition”? which is described in the openSuse
> documentation?
I simply shrink the Windows partition from inside Windows. In Windows 7
it works nicely. Then the openSUSE installer sees that free space and
uses it. I’ve never tried to shrink it from Linux.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
I managed to solve everything and repartition everything from yast. I’ll try and detail what I did here…
1.) First of all I wrote down the proposed partition suggestion by yaste- so I know exactly how the partitions should be and how much yast wanted to allocate to each patition, like Windows, swap, /root, /home etc.
1.) I left “propose separate home partition” box ticked.
2.) I clicked on (create partition setup)- for expert users. I guess I can call myself an expert now.
3.) I clicked on something like hard drive- sda to the left side. There were also some very small hidden partitions underneath sda, which I ignored.
4.) I double clicked the acer NTFS Windows partition and then clicked “resize”. I resized it to how I wanted it and made a note of how much space I was taking away.
5.) I then proceeded to delete the the other proposed extended partition proposed by yast that includes the swap, /root and /home etc one by one.
6.) Next I click “add extended partition”. Now this first add includes the complete volume size of all your linux partitions such as swap/home/root etc. It’s basically the size that yast proposes plus the amount you have taken off the Windows partition.
7.) Then you click “add extended partition” again! Then you type in the amount of your swap, maybe the same as yast originally proposed that you wrote down, select swap and select the mount point as swap.
8.) Then you click “add extended partition” again. You then type in the amount of your root, select ext4 and mount it as your /root.
9.)Then you cluck “add extended partition” again and type in the amount of your /home, select etx4 and select from the dropdown mount /home. I added on the extra here that I took off of the proposed Windows partition.
It’s a funny way of going about things. I don’t understand why it has to be so complicated, but this is what worked for me and I was able to have the partitions the way I wanted them- and do this all in the installation menue. Hope this helps other people with the same problem. I suppose the thing about this method versus g-parted is that it prompts you to select your mounts points, which I am guessing you would have to do in yast anyway.
On 2012-11-19 03:26, JRO321 wrote:
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> Thanks guys for the information.
>
> I managed to solve everything and repartition everything from yast.
> I’ll try and detail what I did here…
Now that you say, it is obvious.
Yes, the proposal is just that, a proposal; to change it you have to go
into expert settings and do your own… It did not occur to me that the
resize would be there, as I never used it.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))