First install of Zorin onto my laptop (replacing Win11) went well. Once completed I decided that I'd split the disk into a 512GB partition and a 1.5GB (yes, disk is a 2TB unit). I am told that the main drive ie. /dev/nvme0n1p2 which shows 1.77TIB cannot be unmounted. So ... where do I go from here?. Any suggestions very welcome. Thanks
Try from a Zorin live session (select try Zorin mode). Your drive must not be mounted during this process, so don't boot with the normal system but with a Bootstick.
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Did you mean 512GB partition and a 1.5TB partition ?
Just asking - did you choose to create your partition with LVM (Logical Volume Management) during setup? I did, and was perplexed that I couldn't use Gparted on it to create separate partitions.
Hi. Thanks for the replies. Total newbie to Linux I'm afraid. Should have chosen a different option at install time and it makes sense that you cannot resize a mounted volume (although you can resize C: in Windows). Discovered GPARTED and the Image writing program and I now have a 512GB /user and a 1.5GB extended partition (approx). Problem now is that I do not know what to do with it now. Wanted to use it for Multimedia in general ie. lots of music, films and general videos that being kept away from the main partition would be available but not interfere when doing backups. Must lose the 'Windows way' of doing things as the files that would hold the multimedia such as music, videos, books, etc ... seem to be partition specific and I cannot create something such as M:/Music and M:/Pictures etc ... and use them from the /user partition. Any ideas?. Thanks for the assistance
Sorry I meant to say 1.5TB extended partition ..
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You can create a folder music, video, pictures...on your separate partition
Then edit the file
~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
(press ctrl+h to show the hidden files in your file manager)
and replace the path with the path to the folder on the separate partition
Or you create a link to this partition.
It should be similar as shown here in this thread where a separate drive is used.
Windows OS cannot anymore than GnuLinux can. What Windows does, however, is ease the experience by marking and noting what changes the user suggests - that are then acted upon the next boot cycle.
This is why in Windows OS, you cannot shrink or enlarge past a certain point when it is mounted, but can fully shrink or enlarge when unmounted. The system won't allow more commit than it can risk.
Sorry Aravisian but I can shrink or enlarge my system disk C; dynamically (within reason). No need to 'unmount' the partition. Not looking for praises for Windows, I think I dislike it every bit as much as everybody else in this forum but lets give credit where credit is due ... 