<div dir="ltr">Disk drives are cheep, £50 buys you a decent 1TB disk, better get 2 and set up disk mirroring, or 4 and stripe...<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>-- Stuart Ward M +44 7782325143</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 January 2014 14:11, Liam Proven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com" target="_blank">lproven@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 2 January 2014 13:45, Nigel Verity <<a href="mailto:nigelverity@hotmail.com">nigelverity@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div class="h5">> I dual boot Xubuntu with Windows 7, but use the Windows partition mainly as<br>
> additional storage. I am generally running out of disk space on both Linux<br>
> and Windows partitions. I do have occasional need for Windows, so giving<br>
> that partition entirely over to Linux is not an option.<br>
><br>
> Does anybody know whether I will still be able to view and access files<br>
> stored in the Windows partition if I compress it using the MS utility built<br>
> into Windows Explorer?<br>
<br>
<br>
</div></div>Do you mean NTFS file compression?<br>
<br>
I *think* so, but I wouldn't. It kills performance & causes a<br>
<br>
More to the point, give your W7 system a really thorough clean out.<br>
<br>
Empty:<br>
<br>
\WINDOWS\TEMP<br>
<br>
... and ...<br>
<br>
\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\{all usernames}\APPLICATION DATA\LOCAL SETTINGS\TEMP<br>
<br>
(or whatever W7 calls it - \USERS or something.)<br>
<br>
Empty all the recycle bins. Empty all the uninstaller files from<br>
C:\WINDOWS (& if you're really keen the log files to go with them, but<br>
*only* those log files! Not sure where W7 keeps uninstallers - Google<br>
is your friend.)<br>
<br>
Delete \PAGEFILE.SYS and \HIBERFIL.SYS - they will be recreated next<br>
boot anyway, possibly in less-fragmented form.<br>
<br>
That should get you many many gigs back.<br>
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