Vista and Linux partition

[iluvchairs112]

Hey, so about a year and a half ago, I was in computer science so I decided to partition my hard drive so that it was about 75% Linux and 25% Vista. I'm using Vista a lot more than Linux right now (and the programs there take much more room) so I was wondering if the stuff saved on Vista only saved on the 25%. Does this mean I have the other 75% almost free? If this is true, I'd like to change my partition, how do I do this?
I'm basically just running out of room on Vista and hoping that I still have lots of free space on Linux. I want to change it so that it is 75% Vista and 25% Linux because I still like to use Linux for some things.
Thanks.

[chrisbrown]

You first need to shrink the linux partition, then expand the windows one. Google can tell you how. Though if you don't use linux too frequently, You might want to consider using that big chuck of space as a data drive, and run VirtualBox from windows for linux stuff.

[DemonWasp]

It's also worth noting that if you have a lot of data files stored (such as video or music), they should probably be stored on an ntfs partition (Windows), as both Windows and Linux will be able to read that format.

[wtd]

Do note that if Windows does not shutdown properly, your Linux install may not be able to mount the NTFS partition.