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The time has come: how do I safely resize the C: partition and move Linux to that disk? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28921393

It may be too much to ask but here it goes:

I have temporarily installed LMDE6 on an HDD where I had a bit of free space, worked with it, experienced Steam with Proton and now I am convinced: I want to move to Linux from Windows for good.

Have another disk, an SSD in which most of the space is taken up by the Windows C: partition. Would like to move Linux there after shrinking the Windows partition a bit more than what it currently occupies now.

I have tried to do this with Paragon on Windows, but after restarting no change can be seen, despite no error being presented. Tried from Linux with GParted but all attempts end up with an error when running ntfsresize.

So

  1. What do I use to do this and how do I do it safely? 2.How do I move the content of my current Linux partition (less than 50 GBs) to that disk keeping the bootloader and everything else working? And what filesystem is best to use?

Thank you in advance for your help!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

A separate drive is far better as linux can be the drive booted by the BIOS and then Grub can then point back to your untouched windows drive to boot it when you want.

this is the way to do it.

i have one system at home set up like this. boot menu's been borked for years by an update. won't boot the other drive, never have bothered to fix it--i just bring up the bios boot drive select and boot it that way.