Comments on: System Partitioning with Vista

By: Partition USB Flash Drives

Partition USB Flash Drives — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:22:26 +0000

[...] other tools. For that you can use the build in tools in the operating system. Read Joshua’s System Partitioning With Vista article to find out how to do that in Windows Vista. A more universal software is the gParted Live [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:46:35 +0000

Yea it is… I couldn’t understand why either… however previously with nothing running it was using about 700mb RAM, in its own partition it was running like 400mb… =)

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:57:22 +0000

>Ubuntu on its own partiton seems to be using considerably less ram which is good…

Which is weird. Loopback (wubi) install shouldn’t have visible difference of RAM usage.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:28:33 +0000

haha thanks for the correction guys =P

Rarst, dont worry I was being slightly saracastic, all my data is synced with mesh to the cloud and my desktop =)

Ubuntu on its own partiton seems to be using considerably less ram which is good…

unfortunately for some strange reason the visual effects are not running as smooth now as they where with wubu. I have no idea why that would be, also hibernate and suspend still dont work.

By: What is Ubuntu?

What is Ubuntu? — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:06:43 +0000

If you like Ubuntu under Wubi, then you will love it in a real install. Under Wubi the OS is as slow as your host OS. You will see how resource-thrifty Linux is when you give it a real install.

By: unruled

unruled — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:23:06 +0000

wubi can make the OS incredibly slow and unresponsive on somewhat older drives with lower speeds.

its a very handy tool though.

By: rgifford

rgifford — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:58:39 +0000

For the partition resizing, try the GParted Live CD. Used it with great satisfaction in dealing with Vista/XP and partition resizing. Does the job without harming any data.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:23:56 +0000

Matt beat me to it, it’s wubi not wubu

By: Matt Clark

Matt Clark — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:31:25 +0000

Uhh… do you mean Wubi?
http://wubi-installer.org/

Cuz, wubu is… different:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wubu

By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:04:31 +0000

I can’t stress enough that backup is REQUIRED before working with partitions. It seems like easy operation (and it is) but amount of things that can go wrong wiht it is enormous.

On preparing stuff – JkDefrag has “Force together” profile especially for this. It moves all files to the start of partition (even if it creates more fragmentation) so you can chop the end of partition away.