Hello,
I would really need help. I have a small Lenovo laptop which I use for work, and I had put OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on it (for a hobby, trying it out, etc.) and I am really low on space (1.3GB) now I saw this option at the KAL (Kickoff Application Launcher), and I have seen an option saying: Partitioning.
I have no idea how to do it but I have 2 OS` installed, Windows 8.1 and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Now from the Windows 8.1 I would like to transfer 20 GB to the Tumbleweed partitioner.
I am having trouble on doing that. Can anyone give me a detailed (I am very new to OpenSUSE) description on how to do it?
Cheers,
-Arpadius98
I’m not clear on what you are trying to do.
Within Windows, you can tell it to shrink its main partition. I don’t recall the exact command, but I managed to find it to shrink my Win 8 partition. It was probably with the disk manager.
Once that is done, there will be free space. Assuming that your disk is GPT partitioned, I would use “gdisk” to put that space into a new linux partition. Other people like “gparted”.
If you are trying to enlarge an existing linux partition, then I have no advice. My method would be to backup everything to an external disk, redo the partitioning, restore from the backup, possibly reinstall booting.
nrickert,
So what you are suggesting is to use gparted or to minimize the windows partition (in windows 8)?
In Windows I have actually not checked the option (I will try to find it though), but I will need to do this quickly because soon I have no more space. And that will cause my computer to crash again (have a black screen, and it not being able to do anything until I reinstall it.
Cheers & thank you for your support,
-Arpadius98
nrickert,
I read that I should definately-not-configure Linux partitioners from Windows 8 (or any windows). So I just went another step forward, now I will have to find out how to extend an existing linux partition. Is gparted or any of the software you named for extending an existing partitioner or creating one? I can easily create one (I can see the option, so no problems with that), but extending is the problem. The reason why I should not configure a linux partitioner is that windows does not understand linux and if I do try to extend/shrink linux partitioners then files may corrupt and the operation will probably be unsuccessful.
Cheers,
-Arpadius98
Try doing that in Windows 8. I have seen “gparted” corrupt Windows partitions.
Then see if “gparted” will extend your linux partition. You can install “gparted” with Yast software management. However, if you are tight on disk space that might be a problem.
If you are using “btrfs” then the snapshots might be part of your space problem. Try Yast –> Miscellaneous –> Snapper and see if you can free up some space that way.