[TriLUG] Disk Partitioning - Help Please

[Roger W. Broseus via TriLUG]

M.R.,

Some thoughts: simplify your partitioning scheme. It's hard to understand why 
you have so many partitions. Consolidate.

sda should comfortably hold the two OSes with room to spare. Of course you 
would need to backup data to make sure you don't loose it during 
re-partitioning, etc. I suggest you start with Windows and maybe plan on a 
re-install / update of Linux. Move data on sda to a backup location. Use EaseUS
http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm
to delete partitions on sda and expand the "c:" drive as desired. Mine is a 
generous 50 GB to allow for the OS as well as data used in Win.

I have had good luck with EaseUS expanding and contracting Win partitions. If 
there is a recovery partition, you might move it to the "end" of sda. IF there 
is insufficient space to hold Win and Linux on sda, you could put some of data 
for Win on an sdb partition.

After putting Win in order, tackle Linux. I put Linux on it's own partition on 
sda. /boot, / (root), occupy 210 MB and 6.8 GB, respectively. I leave extra 
space on /boot for the clutter of old kernel stuff that accumulates, cruft to 
be cleaned up later. Don't skimp on / as that's where Linux executables live, 
e.g., including The GIMP, Open Office, etc.

/home is on sdb in my case. /swap is also there, thinking it's better to be on 
a separate drive from the OS for the sake of speed; probably not a real 
consideration 'cause Linux does such a good job at memory management that 
/swap is rarely used unless you suffer for ram.

Good luck.

--
Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
     Email: RogerB at bronord.com
     Web Site: www.bronord.com

On 05/09/2015 08:23 PM, M. R. via TriLUG wrote:
> My Win7 Drive C: is very full; I would like to enlarge it and have taken off 
> what I thought I could .
> Most data is on Drive E:,which has plenty of space. The second partition in 
> the Extended area is what I would like to move next to /dev/sda2 to enlarge it.
> All thoughts welcome.
> Problem area::
> 1 HD dual boot, Win7 and Ubuntu
> with these partitions:
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x55410a13
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>
> /dev/sda1            2048      206847      102400    7 
> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT        empty?
> /dev/sda2   *      206848   113639423    56716288    7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT     
> win7 Drive C:
>
> /dev/sda3       113641470   585424664   235891597+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)    
> Extended partition
> Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
> /dev/sda4       585424896   625141759    19858432   27  Hidden NTFS WinRE
> /dev/sda5       380628045   585424664   102398310    7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT        *
> Partition 5 does not start on physical sector boundary.
> /dev/sda6       364820148   380628044     7903948+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
> Partition 6 does not start on physical sector boundary.
> /dev/sda7       310253568   364818021    27282227   83  Linux
> /dev/sda8       142776320   211408895    34316288   83  Linux
> /dev/sda9       211410944   310251519    49420288    7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> /dev/sda10      113643520   142774271    14565376    7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
> * I would like to move this out of extended in make it a part of /dev/sda2
>
> Flash drive from which Ubuntu was booted to use GPartEd:
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 8029 MB, 8029470208 bytes
> 248 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders, total 15682559 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00085172
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *          62    15668143     7834041    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>
>
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