<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 January 2014 13:45, Nigel Verity <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nigelverity@hotmail.com" target="_blank">nigelverity@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:10pt" face="Verdana">Hi<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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?<br><br></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br>
</div><div>The default compression in Windows is zip so you should be able to view compressed files with unzip or Archive Manager.</div><div><br></div><div>s/</div></div>Twitter: @sfgreenwood<div>"TBA are particularly glib"<br>
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