Partitioning in SUSE

skiba

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So apparently i've run out of space in SUSE. I have 2 partitions /hda5 and /hda7. 5 is full but 7 has a few Gb free. How do I go about utilising the space on hda7? Any help much appreciated. Thanks :)
 
I dont see what your getting at. If /hda7 is mounted just store files in that directory? :P
 
Is there anyway I can merge the two paritions? Is there any reason the SUSE isntall made two separate ones?
 
Lets see your mounted partitions.. df -HT
I wouldnt physically merge the two partitions just mount the second one somewhere useful and start storing new data to that.
 
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I can c&p that output as my laptop is offline at the moment but will when I get in. I would use the other partition i.e. my windows partition which is 30gb but when I mount it, make a shortcut and drag into it I get "you cannot drop items into a directory for which you do not have permissions".

The owner is root but it won't let me change the permissions to allow me to modify the contents...I have tried as SU from the command line but still no joy, it just says "read only file system". How can I copy onto this partition?
 
Cheers, will have a read of that, why is writing to an NTFS partition not a good idea though?
 
Actauly its a lot better these days. The NTFS support for non-Windows OSes is reverse engineering, the specification of the NTFS file system is not disclosed. This is why its not recomended :) Then again there's no guarantee it wont eat your data then go empty the contents of your fridge, like anything in linux :-)
 
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