[ubuntu-uk] Dual-Boot Issue

[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 <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 January 2014 13:45, Nigel Verity <nigelverity at hotmail.com> 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 entirely over to Linux is not an option.
> >
> > Does anybody know whether I will still be able to view and access files
> > stored in the Windows partition if I compress it using the MS utility
> built
> > into Windows Explorer?
>
>
> Do you mean NTFS file compression?
>
> I *think* so, but I wouldn't. It kills performance & causes a
>
> More to the point, give your W7 system a really thorough clean out.
>
> Empty:
>
> \WINDOWS\TEMP
>
> ... and ...
>
> \DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\{all usernames}\APPLICATION DATA\LOCAL
> SETTINGS\TEMP
>
> (or whatever W7 calls it - \USERS or something.)
>
> Empty all the recycle bins. Empty all the uninstaller files from
> C:\WINDOWS (& if you're really keen the log files to go with them, but
> *only* those log files! Not sure where W7 keeps uninstallers - Google
> is your friend.)
>
> Delete \PAGEFILE.SYS and \HIBERFIL.SYS - they will be recreated next
> boot anyway, possibly in less-fragmented form.
>
> That should get you many many gigs back.
>
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