reduce the windows partition by windows utility like partition magic etc
and then delete and create ext2 partition in linux..
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Gaurav Bhatnagar wrote:
> Hello people,
> Please help me out with this! I had unwisely mad only a 1GB partition for
> linux leaving 3 GB for windows. Now, since i dont use windows much most of
> the 3 GB is free but i have a measly 18 mb left in linux
>
> Can i increase the size of the partition? Or, perhaps (ok it sounds crazy!)
> use the windows partition directly for linux. For example i could move my
> /usr onto d: and then somehow ask Linux to mount /usr from /dev/hda5 on
> booting..something like the way it work on nfs booting of diskless clients?
> Please forgive me for making an outrageous suggestion but you know how a guy
> feels when he gets a "no space left on device" right?
> Hoping for help
> Gaurav
>
>
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