is the ultimate goal so I started with cleaning up the HDD, defragging and shrinking the C: drive.
openSUSE 12.3 and KDE 4.10
The shrink did not give me the free space I was hoping for.
This is after the shrink:
167Gb Capacity
133Gb Free
58.44Gb unallocated. <—this will hold openSUSE and I was hoping for more. Is it large enough ?
I had read where Vista keeps some sizeable system files near the physical end of the drive hence restricting how much space I could recover.
I used the Windows shrink program.
Am I pretty much stuck with this or have others figured out a way around it ?
Hi
I would imagine in Windows you would turn off/delete restore points, disable the page file thing. Clean all the tmp files out. Then defrag, reboot, defrag etc. Then try shrinking again with the windows tool. It’s pretty much what I did for windows 8, it was happy to shrink it to around 20GB, but I gave it 80GB to be on the safe side…
On 2013-08-21, hextejas <hextejas@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> is the ultimate goal so I started with cleaning up the HDD, defragging
> and shrinking the C: drive.
> openSUSE 12.3 and KDE 4.10
>
> The shrink did not give me the free space I was hoping for.
This is a Windows question, and unless Gparted (or other Linux packages) can defrag NTFS partitions and handle
`immovable’ files safely I’m not sure how much mileage you’ll get from responses here. This is (one of the many reasons)
why I recommend for OEM Windows install users (even those who don’t use Linux) to blank their hard drive of a new
computer, partition it the way they want and then reinstall Windows again the way they want.
You might find the suggestions from the following webpage useful:
I like the idea of starting fresh so to speak. I think I will back up all the Windows stuff to an external HDD and let openSUSE have the whole thing.
The intent is to abandon Windows but I made promises that we could go back if necessary. Well, we will be able to, though not quite as simple as dual bootable.
Maybe some combination of both. I have a Windows 7 Pro install DVD which I like better anyway.
Tally ho and thanks for helping me see these other options.
Hey, this might be a golden opportunity to learn about Virtual stuff. rotfl!
On 2013-08-21, malcolmlewis <malcolmlewis@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Else I run openSUSE with 30GB of SSD allocated but do use a second
> drive for most of my data /tmp and swap.
Ahhh - I’ve never before seen a recommendation of having a devoted partition for /tmp. I’m trying to see an advantage,
but all I can come up with is to handle badly behaved /tmp practices filling up hard drive space in a controlled way. If
I’m missing something obvious, I’d be grateful if you could educate me on the rational behind this configuration.
Hi
The /tmp file is busy, just cuts out the read/writing to the SSD I use to have /var/log and /var/tmp on the rotating drive as well, but watching i/o on the partitions with iostat show most of the disk activity was to /tmp (around 20Kb every 30 seconds or so) so just use that now. I do note that newer drives are rated at 20GB a day, plus a five year warranty for the OCZ ones. I’m probably going to get a 128GB SSD (openSUSE and SLED) soon and put in this system drop back to a 250GB rotating drive for windows 8 and data. Then use the 60GB SSD in another notebook I have…
>
> I like the idea of starting fresh so to speak. I think I will back up
> all the Windows stuff to an external HDD and let openSUSE have the whole
> thing.
>
> The intent is to abandon Windows but I made promises that we could go
> back if necessary. Well, we will be able to, though not quite as simple
> as dual bootable.
>
> Maybe some combination of both. I have a Windows 7 Pro install DVD
> which I like better anyway.
>
> Tally ho and thanks for helping me see these other options.
>
> Hey, this might be a golden opportunity to learn about Virtual stuff.
> rotfl!
>
Ever consider using that Win 7 and upgrading the Vista installation? I know
it isn’t saying a whole lot but W7 is a heck of a lot better than Vista!
I’ve used both Win 7 and 8 to shrink themselves and they do a whole lot
better than Vista did, even with all the tricks. I was never able to
reclaim more than half of a Vista disk but both W7 and 8 shrank pretty well.
I can’t speak to how effective the shrink will be after considerable use of
the W7/8 version, which sounds like your status, but they should do a better
job than Vista.
Thank you Will and I agree about W7 being better than Vista.
What I have done is give the entire HD to openSUSE and will figure out a way to run Win 7 virtually if the time comes.
> Thank you Will and I agree about W7 being better than Vista.
> What I have done is give the entire HD to openSUSE and will figure out
> a way to run Win 7 virtually if the time comes.
>
That’s the most satisfactory solution for light use. I do the same for tax
season and a couple of support sites I help out. With Win 7, be sure to
give the virtual session plenty of memory and available disk space as it
seems to bog down pretty quickly with less than 4GB of ram or less than
about 40 GB of virtual disk.
When I got the current desktop, it came with Win 8 and a 2TB drive so I
shrank Win 8 “just in case” and to simplify the UEFI secure install setup -
but I still do all the work on a Win 7 vm.