Background

Enoki will run host OS by VirtualBox for Windows xp. Enoki wants to run host and guest OS in primary partition, so as to share disk space.

Summary

Partition Master Tool could merge logical drive E. In case of disk space shortage, Enoki will erase older .NET Framework2 with a risk.

経緯

host 及び guest OS を同一パーティションにインストールしてディスクスペースを有効活用したい。

要約

Windows xp partition パーティションツールはマージができず，フリーツールにより論理ドライブを プライマリーパーティションに合併した。

Uninstall applications

Enoki uninstalled CAD and programming tool etc which occupies big disk space.

Table 1 Uninstalled applications

Name	Size	Installed year
CADLUS	359MB	2013
EAGLE	222MB	2014
GCC GDL	?	?

Merge logical E drive

Windows xp control tool showed alarm as shown in Figure1, when erasing logical E drive.

Figure1 Windows xp tells alarm

The tool couldn't merge unallocated region as shown in Figure2. Remembering free control tool, Enoki installed Ease US Partition Master and could merge.

Figure2 Poor Windows xp partition tool

Ease US Partition Master showed merged primary partition correct as shown in Figure3.

Figure3 Merged primary partition

Defragmentation

Enoki did defragmentation by Windows xp as shown in Figure4.

Figure4 Defragmentation

After all, vacant space was 12.7 GB. Enoki knew that Linux CentOS7 recommended 10GiB to install.^[1] Is the disk space enough?

Real Windows xp disk space

Although Enoki's Program Files occupies 1.49 GB only, Windows xp does 5.88 GB. Above all, older .NET Framework 2 is big size as shown in Figure5. Windows xp may not uninstall these ones.

Figure5 .NET Framework disk space

Conclusion

If Linux requires more disk space, Enoki will erase .NET Framework 2 with a risk.

Ref

1. Disk and memory requirements