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swew

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Registered: 2024-08-22

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Arch linux and Windows 10

I have two disks, on one of them there's a Windows (128gb), on the second (1TB) there's an Arch, and when I put it, I as a fucker completely formatted the disk-terabyte, and now I have under the Arch allocated the whole disk, which I do not need, the file system on the disk with the Arch ext4, I need to compress the disk so that the Arch took 300gb, and the Windows 700 and the partition with the Windows was ntfs, and that the Arch did not fuck up from such manipulations. Also as I understood when manipulating the disk, it is worth to make a backup, but how and what to do it I do not know.

cryptearth

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Re: Arch linux and Windows 10

so ... what's the question here?

seth

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Re: Arch linux and Windows 10

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Parted … partitions
1. you need to do this offline (you cannot boot arch because the ext4 partition must not be mounted), use a live distro like grml
2. YOU FIRST NEED TO SHRINK THE FILESYSTEM!!!!!! before changing the partition layout
3. that will not bring back your wiindows parition
4. keeping the the header of the ext4 partition where it is and just shortening it is much more reliable that trying to move the partition by a 700GB offset. Iff you wanted to do the latter for whatever reason, you'll most likely want to use the gparted GUI and in that case you also absolutely need a backup! (In doubt dd the entire disk onto another disk)

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