Shrinking BOSS linux partition of TN Govt laptop
Tamilnadu Government is giving Laptop to Government and Aided institute's HSC and Arts college students. The manufacturer of the laptop is most probably Lenova, HCL or Acer. The size of the hard disk in the Lenova laptop is about 300GB. Now, In this post I'm going to show you how to resize the linux partition so that you can use that partition (which will have the size of around 88GB) without deleting the BOSS Linux. You must also remember that Removal of BOSS Linux may cause the warranty of the product.You can also download this guide as pdf for your future reference. They have partitioned the laptop in the following way: 59GB - Local disk C 141GB - Local disk D 98GB - This partition is allocated to BOSS linux Why should I shrink the linux Partition? You can't use the 98GB linux partition in Windows. 6-10GB is enough for linux. We can both read & write NTFS (Windows partition) in linux. We can't even read a linux partition in windows. Most of us will not use