Linux Mint on Chuwi Hi10 & Hi12 Tablets

[Anonymous]

What’s the most I can take from the 44.2GiB ntfs & not harm Win10 operation?

If I leave 4.2 GiB is that most likely enough for swap and other emergency uses?

I never use MS – it’s there just in case there’s something proprietary I have to

access in an emergency (e.g. some app., or some document that’s so MS-

proprietary that LibreOffice or other Linux app can’t read it).

Thanks!

[BBaker]

MS specifies min requirements are 16GB for 32 bit and 20GB for 64bit.  How much is used right now on your new system?  I think you can enable disk compression which will save space (I’ve never done this) and slow the system down a bit, but since you rarely use Win10 that prob does not matter to you.  Note that once you have dual-boot setup, you’ll be able to read files from your Win10 partition when running Linux but will not be able to write to it.  If you use compression on Windows that prob will no longer work.  Also, I just tried out a nifty free program called Paragon ExtFS that gives complete read/write access to your Linux partitions from within Windows.  Not sure what security implications that could have – ie, windows malware can access your Linux partition?  I’m betting it’s low risk and you can set it up to just map drives on a per use basis rather than all the time upon bootup.
For Windows 10 specific questions, like min disk space recommendations, I’d go to TenForums.com
Not knowing, I’d prob opt in your case for 24GB Windows and 20GB Linux. I’d install the Mate or Xfce desktop versions of Linux Mint 18. They run a bit faster, and perhaps use less disk space than Cinnamon.  Linux Mint 18 Mate requires 9GB and 20GB is recommended.  You can expand file storage with SD/USB of course.
I’m using LM 18 Mate because it’s based on Ubuntu Mate and so in theory should be better supported.

[Anonymous]

OK, thanks, I’ll just do the 24 MS/20 Linux split for now.

I believe it’s Linux Mint Sarah Mate 64 I have loaded via an older 2.0 USB stick.

Once I finish thrashing about I’ll burn a USB 3.0 16GB stick with the version for daily use.

I also have a 32GB microSDHC UHS-I for portable memory.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

gparted as superuser won’t let me resize the 44.12GB partition

I’ve never seen that before – gparted always works!

One weird thing is that the “Basic data” partition changes from 44.12GiB to 45180MiB when I choose Resize/Move

[BBaker]

No!  As I mentioned before but maybe you missed it, you should use Windows to shrink the windows partition first to free up space – make it “unused” drive space. Then boot Linux and use Gparted to partition and format that unused space as an Ext4 partition.  If you need help, Google is your friend 😉

[Anonymous]

I saw that but have always been able to do everything from within gparted

Has MS blocked that in their never-ending quest for proprietary control?

Is a MS partition management app included by default or need I download one?

Thanks!

[BBaker]

Anonymous wrote:

Is a MS partition management app included by default or need I download one?

 It’s there in Windows, but I included a Google search link of the Tenforums.com site in my post above so that you could answer your own question(s)  🙂   Quicker solution: go to Youtube and search for “shrink partition in Windows 10”

[Anonymous]

This is what I did to TRIPLE-BOOT from internal MMC in my X98+, these are the partitions after resizing Android cache, system and data, leaving almost 14GB available for XJUbunTAB.

https://i1.wp.com/xjesus.net/xjubuntu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/WinAndroidXJUbunTAB-partitions.jpeg?ssl=1

I left the Win10 partition with it’s original 32GB size because you can need it for updates and because I have read/write access from XJUbunTAB, but I don’t really use it.

I did everything from GParted and had no problem with Android partitions. Sometime I’ve used gparted to resize Windows partitions but I think it’s best to do it from Windows as Bbaker says.

[Anonymous]

I you want a proper Ubuntu 64 bits 4.5.4 kernel working with RTL8723BS WiFi you can install this on any Ubuntu 16.04 based distro and it should work quite stable:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xjubuntu/files/16.04%2064%20bits%20XJUbunTAB%20-%20patched%20kernel%20for%20tablets%20or%20Hybrids/Akmelius%20Atom%20kernel/

Just follow the guide on that link

[BBaker]

I would recommend the latest released kernel v4.7 :

Install Kernel 4.7 see this page if needed: http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2016/07/install-linux-kernel-4-7-ubuntu-16-04/
Open a terminal window and perform these commands:

cd ~
mkdir kernel-4.7
cd kernel-4.7
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7/linux-headers-4.7.0-040700_4.7.0-040700.201607241632_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7/linux-headers-4.7.0-040700-generic_4.7.0-040700.201607241632_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7/linux-image-4.7.0-040700-generic_4.7.0-040700.201607241632_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Reboot

Uninstall Kernel 4.7:
For any reason you want to remove this Kernel, start/restart your machine and select boot with the previous kernel in Grub2 -> Advanced menu. Then remove the 4.7 kernel via Ubuntu Tweak, or just follow this tutorial: http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2016/05/remove-old-kernels-ubuntu-16-04/ 

 

[Anonymous]

OK, opened Win10 & used their partition management app to shrink the ntfs partition.

I didn’t have it make the new partition a “Basic data partition” because I thought that

might be MS-code for ntfs – but when I try to change the partition to ext4 in Linux using

gparted it doesn’t work. Very odd.

Did I miss a step, please?

Thanks!

[BBaker]

After you used the Windows disk manager to shrink the partition you should have “unallocated” space as in this pic (black bar colored rectangle to the right): http://i.imgur.com/bc2vkK5.png
   Then  you should save and exit and boot into Linux to run Gparted.  If you created something with that unused space in Windows, go back and delete it.  It should be unallocated, which is an easy way to locate it later with Gparted.  That’s the method I’ve always used… also because if you subsequently perform a Linux install the installation program will detect/locate that unused space and allow you to install there “alongside” your other OS(es), aka multi-boot.  So in other words, if you want to install Linux in that space you don’t have to run Gparted at all because the installation program will do it for you.  Just run the Linux Mint install from your Live-USB boot after having freed up that space using the Windows 10 drive manager.

Btw, today I had something got corrupted on my HD, and LM18 would not boot after the Grub menu choice, displaying errors, and prompting me to run “fsck” (like Windows chkdsk command).   I ran it, and accepted all defaults and answered yes to all prompts, and it fixed everything and I was able to reboot and everything seems to now work OK again.  Just FYI, it’s always good to keep a Live-USB handy that has WiFi working if you ever need to get internet access to get help resolving some problem.  I didn’t know what ‘fsck’ and the error messages meant at first but I muddled my way through it.

[Anonymous]

It shows as

“19.53 GB”

“Healthy (Primary Partition)”

Is “Delete Volume” in the MS Win10 partition management app the same as delete partition in gparted?

Apparently it is …

How To Shrink A Volume Or Partition In Windows 10

 

[BBaker]

Anonymous wrote:

It shows as “19.53 GB” “Healthy (Primary Partition)” Is “Delete Volume” in the MS Win10 partition management app the same as delete partition in gparted?

  Yes.

[Anonymous]

It’s weird – after I created the “unallocated” space in Win10 I went to gparted in Linux where I attempted to make it an ext4 partition.

gparted tried & failed … leaving it labeled as “unknown”.

I ran delete on the partition & got an error which talked about Partition 8 whereas the action confirmation at the bottom had confirmed that I was addressing Partition 16.

But when I canceled out of the pop-up windows gparted showed Partition 16 as “unallocated”.

Partition 8 is the Android ext4 partition 2.50 GiB

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