Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual-Boot Issue

2014-01-02 Thread Liam Proven
On 2 January 2014 17:58, Anthony Harrington wrote: > Aside from the suggestions already mentioned, there will be a few other > tweaks you can do on either partitions. For the linux one, you might like to > know that 5% of the filesystem is put to the side incase root needs a little > extra space w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual-Boot Issue

2014-01-02 Thread Anthony Harrington
On 02/01/14 13:45, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > I dual boot Xubuntu with Windows 7, but use the Windows partition > mainly as additional storage. I am generally running out of disk space > on both Linux and Windows partitions. I do have occasional need for > Windows, so giving that partition entire

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual-Boot Issue

2014-01-02 Thread Stuart Ward
Disk drives are cheep, £50 buys you a decent 1TB disk, better get 2 and set up disk mirroring, or 4 and stripe... -- Stuart Ward M +44 7782325143 On 2 January 2014 14:11, Liam Proven wrote: > On 2 January 2014 13:45, Nigel Verity wrote: > > I dual boot Xubuntu with Windows 7, but use the Wind

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual-Boot Issue

2014-01-02 Thread Liam Proven
On 2 January 2014 13:45, Nigel Verity wrote: > I dual boot Xubuntu with Windows 7, but use the Windows partition mainly as > additional storage. I am generally running out of disk space on both Linux > and Windows partitions. I do have occasional need for Windows, so giving > that partition entire

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual-Boot Issue

2014-01-02 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 2 January 2014 13:45, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > I dual boot Xubuntu with Windows 7, but use the Windows partition mainly > as additional storage. I am generally running out of disk space on both > Linux and Windows partitions. I do have occasional need for Windows, so > giving that partitio

[ubuntu-uk] Dual-Boot Issue

2014-01-02 Thread Nigel Verity
Hi I dual boot Xubuntu with Windows 7, but use the Windows partition mainly as additional storage. I am generally running out of disk space on both Linux and Windows partitions. I do have occasional need for Windows, so giving that partition entirely over to Linux is not an option. Does anybod