Disk management problem

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hey! if windows disk management doesn't work, you can shrink your disk with gparted live on a pendrive

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what is a pendrive ?

and can you pls tell me how to gpart live ?

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like an usb stick

you knoe

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a usb ?

i installed linux there

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an usb storage device

then you should get another usb stick and put gparted live on it

if disk management doesnt work for u

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can i download it on my c drive or my 2tb drive ?

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and your linux distro u have on that pandrive also should have gparted on there

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do you know what a live session is?

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no

i just downloaded ubuntu into my usb i used etcher and now i want to make space so i can dual boot

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ok so you flashed an usb with ubuntu iso

ubuntu iso has gparted on it afaik

you should be able to boot the u ubuntu iso and shrink the windows partition

also please dont use ubuntu

linux mint is better in my opinion

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i dont like how it looks 🙂

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wait i am confused

so i dont have to do anything with the disk management

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXyN1aJYefc

i did what the video said

i learned what gparted is like 30m ago

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yeah??? you can use any other tool to shrink your disk

it doesnt matter

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u can get many other variants not only cinnamon

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soo how wil i shrink my disk ?

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use gparted

like i told you

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ok

🙂

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be careful tho

like watch a guide or something

because you really seem to not know anything about partitioning disks

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ye i am new to those things

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i wil

will

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yea but the tutorial shows how to extend i want to shrink

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then read the wiki or find another tutorial

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ok

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i dont think that linux is for you

if you cant search on your own

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ok

it will let me shrink past the numbers it has

like the max i can shrink is 0.6gb

and i want 80gb

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send a photo

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kk

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it literally says whats wrong

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i dont understund what is says

tbh

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do you know english?

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yes

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it says

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can i get past that limit ?

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you cant shrink a volume beyond the point where any unmoveable files are located

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do you have enough space for ubuntu

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on what disk

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i want to dual boot

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on your main windows partition

MY GOD

I KNOW

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sorry

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you need to have enough space, for ubuntu to install

do you have 80 gigabytes free

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i have 150gb left of space

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on your disk

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yes

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on C?

(you have left 150 gb on C?)

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yes

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please try gparted

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ok

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boot the ubuntu usb and find a partitioning tool there

like gnome partitioning tool or gparted

one of them should be on the iso

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and sorry for me not understunding

TY

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its fine i also was really dumb (im still a dumbass)

youll learn

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ok

1 more question

if i dowanload gparted on the usb that i have ubuntu on will ubuntu get deleted from the usb and gparted get installed there ?

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yeah, but you dont have to, the ubuntu ISO has a partitioning tool included

aslo for the future, to download an iso is to get it from the internet, but 'to flash an iso' is to put it on the pendrive

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wdym it has a partitioning tool. so i dont need to make a new partition ?

from jmy c drive ?

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okay imma explain this

the ubuntu iso

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ok

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is ubuntu that you can boot, it works like any other ubuntu but

1. once you reboot, files that you alter or create get removed, same with installed packages etc
2. it has the installation tool

like every linux iso, the ubuntu iso should have a partitioning tool

a partitioning tool is a tool that lets you alter your disk, eg create partitions, format, delete

partitioning tools come in text mode like fdisk or parted, or in gui thing like cfdisk(tui) or gparted which is parted but with gui

windows disk management is a partitioning tool

because it lets you format, create or delete partitions

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ok so if i lunch ubuntu it will make me make a partition from my c drive for ubuntu ?

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you can shrink a partition with any partitioning tool that has support of the filesystem (NTFS in your case) that is on the partition

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you will have to free up space manually

so resize the NTFS partition (your C drive) to make space for ubuntu

and then you can create partitions using the free space that you have created

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ok

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note: linux doesnt use NTFS (it has a driver for it, but the system will be using a filesystem called ext4 or something else)

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ok

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Gparted:

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Linux also doesnt use drive letters, thats a windows feature, the Linux Kernel, names its devices (disks) with names like /dev/sda(sdb,c,d,e,f) for USB disks, SATA devices /dev/nvme0n1 (or something simillar) for devices that are SSD's and that use the NVMe protocol and /dev/mmcblk0(1,2,3,4) for devices that are sd cards

sr0 for cds, and fd0 for floppy drives

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ok ok

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you can find almost any info about linux stuff on the Arch Wiki

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ok

ty

i will try my best 🙂

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dw youll learn

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note: a partition can also be filesystemless