On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 3:40:04 PM UTC+5:30, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 09:53:14PM -0800, Rusi Mody wrote: > > Trying to setup linux on lenovo laptop. > > I find that its gpt as expected and there are some 5 partitions > > (as shown by compmgmt in windows) > > > > | recovery | 1G | > > | EFI | 260M | > > | OEM | 1G | > > | Windows8 (C:) | 424G | > > | Lenovo (D:) | 25G | > > | Recovery | 14G | > > > > Clearly its the windows (C:) that needs to be shrunk for the linux. > > > > Q.1 In the past (mbr) Ive invaribly found that adding a partition > > in the middle causes all sorts of trouble. > > > > How is it with gpt? > > With GPT, all partitions are equal members - that is, the whole > Primary/Extended/Logical mess is gone; a partition is a partition. That > being the case, you shouldn't have any problems shrinking C: and putting > Linux in the middle. If this is a traditional ("spinning rust") disk, > then you probably want to consider sliding D: up against the shrunk C:, > though, just to minimise head seek while in Windows (that is, if you're > reading files from both C: and D:, then not having to hop over the Linux > partition will make seek times shorter).
That seems like a neat idea. However this: http://gparted.org/faq.php#faq-6 as I understand warns about doing this from outside windows. And best as I can see windows compmgmt allows make/delete but does not allow moving partitions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/6e9928b8-0c6c-4aaf-9f7f-c41f08770...@googlegroups.com