Can Linux and Windows share a partition?
Since Ubuntu can interact with NTFS (Windows) partitions, but Windows cannot interact with EXT4 (Linux) partitions, your best option is to create an NTFS partition in that free space. First click /dev/sda4 and drag it to the right, then create another partition inside the free space.
Is 60GB enough for Linux?
Is 60GB enough for Ubuntu? Ubuntu as a operating system will not use a lot of disk, maybe around 4-5 GB will be occupied after a fresh installation. If you use up to 80% of the disk, the speed will drop enormously. For a 60GB SSD, it means that you can only use around 48GB.
How to create a partition between windows and Linux?
To create the partition you are free to use any operating system. On Windows, you can use the Windows default tools disk management or any third party software partition tools. On Linux, you can also use any tools that you are familiar with it, to create partitions. You also free to determine the size of the partition as needed.
How does Linux Installer reduce the size of the Windows partition?
The Linux installer will reduce the size of the WIndows partition, and create what it needs to install Linux in the space that it recovers by doing that. I can then continue through the rest of the installation.
Can you use NTFS partition for / home in Linux?
As a few commenters pointed out, you can’t use an NTFS-formatted partition for /home in Linux. That’s because NTFS doesn’t preserve all of the properties and permissions used by Linux, and Windows doesn’t even read Linux file systems.
How to create shared storage between Linux and Windows?
Right-click on that partition, and click “Change Drive Letter and Path…” Click the “Add” button, and assign it with any letter that you want. Then, OK. Now your shared storage is successfully mounted (on my case: it mounted to drive D:\\). 4. Done, and these are some notes. That’s all.