ubu-lemon
April 23rd, 2010, 08:08 PM
I wonder how much disk space a non manual dual boot uses?
I've always been guided by a person knowing much about linux when doing my dual boot (and been guided to do the partitions manualy), but this person is not there for the moment and I need to do a dual boot on my son's computer.
Since he'll need his Windows computer mainly for games I wouldn't want Ubuntu to take 2/3 of his disk space (which is about 250 Gb I think, let's say 50 Gb would be perfect for the Ubuntu)
And I'm not sure how I could change this later, cause in my own computer I cannot find how to resize (I cannot unmount neither resize the partitions I have) I don't mean I need to do this on my computer but I mean I wouldn't want to try out anything if I'm not sure it be could restored in 1,2,3.
And partitions is such a thing.
If I remember correctly I've done dual boot by default (i mean without doing the partitions manualy) and it does about 50/50 ?
thanks for your help
(please bear in mind I'm not a genius linux user, just a simple one with little knowledge)
Sarah.
I've always been guided by a person knowing much about linux when doing my dual boot (and been guided to do the partitions manualy), but this person is not there for the moment and I need to do a dual boot on my son's computer.
Since he'll need his Windows computer mainly for games I wouldn't want Ubuntu to take 2/3 of his disk space (which is about 250 Gb I think, let's say 50 Gb would be perfect for the Ubuntu)
And I'm not sure how I could change this later, cause in my own computer I cannot find how to resize (I cannot unmount neither resize the partitions I have) I don't mean I need to do this on my computer but I mean I wouldn't want to try out anything if I'm not sure it be could restored in 1,2,3.
And partitions is such a thing.
If I remember correctly I've done dual boot by default (i mean without doing the partitions manualy) and it does about 50/50 ?
thanks for your help
(please bear in mind I'm not a genius linux user, just a simple one with little knowledge)
Sarah.