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Is it possible to free already allocated space in order to create a new logical partition

Asked by pan sp

I have an external hard drive with two partitions, which i created in windows disk manager, and now i want two create a third partition in ubuntu. The problem is that i have no free unallocated space. Although, i have a lot of free space in both partitions. How can i free some space, unallocate it and then create a new partition? I am posting the result of fdisk -l command.

root@name_of_pc:/media/zetsu# fdisk -l | grep sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 931,5 GiB, 1000204884480 bytes, 1953525165 sectors
/dev/sdb1 2048 1748721663 1748719616 833,9G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 1748721664 1953519615 204797952 97,7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Lets suppose that i want 200GiB from sdb1, but i dont want to lose the files that i have stored there.

root@name_of_pc:/media/zetsu# df -h | grep sdb
/dev/sdb2 98G 89M 98G 1% /media/zetsu/New Volume
/dev/sdb1 834G 162G 673G 20% /media/zetsu/Rinnegan

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Due to the fact that these are Windows volumes, I recommend that you use Windows tools to achieve that.

Do a web search for "windows disk management shrink volume"

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pan sp (buggy89) said : 		#2

thank you

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