Hello Sreekumar, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide#Partitioning_hard_disks_.28general_information.29
Should answer your questions about hard drive partitioning. As to resizing partitions safely, its always better to backup all your data, and do a fresh partitioning. -- aashik On 26 October 2011 06:31, sreekumar r <sreekumarhari...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for enlightening. What is the maximum no. of partitions that can be > created in a hard disk? Some space is there in my hard disk unpartitioned. > Is Windows cannot be installed, if there are more than the permissible no. > of partitions in a disk? I could not install Windows in disk 1, as the no. > of partitions in that disk is high. How to reduce the no. of partitions in > a disk safely? In my disk 1, there are 12 partitions, including the one > created by system. Data is there in all drives except in the system created > partition. > > > 2011/10/25 »тнє υηινєяѕαℓ ℓσνєя« <ikrsh...@ymail.com> > >> *Points to be noted i**nstalling Windows and any GNULinux distro (dual >> boot) when the hard disk is completely free* >> >> - Always install Windows first. If you install Windows after GNULinux, >> it will override GNULinux's boot loader with the Windows boot loader. And >> Windows Boot Loader don't detect GNULinux. >> - While allocating partition during Windows Installation keep some >> space of hard disk as un-allocated partition for GNULinux. >> - Then during GNULinux installation select option something like >> "Install GNULinux in free space along with Windows." This will install >> GNULinux in that un-allocated partition. This option is available in most >> recently released distros. >> - Use GNULinux's partition as Ext4. (If you are using Ubuntu it will >> automatically mount NTFS partition of Windows. If not you may need to >> install *ntfs3g* from synaptic package manager.) >> >> You can refer this page for complete guide : >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot >> >> Hope you got. :) >> Krishnan >> ikrshnan.blogspot.com >> >> -- >> "Freedom is the only law". >> "Freedom Unplugged" >> http://www.ilug-tvm.org >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "ilug-tvm" group. >> To control your subscription visit >> http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe >> To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> >> >> >> For details visit the google group page: >> http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en >> > > -- > "Freedom is the only law". > "Freedom Unplugged" > http://www.ilug-tvm.org > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ilug-tvm" group. > To control your subscription visit > http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe > To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > > For details visit the google group page: > http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en > -- aashik -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
