Thus, if you want to use space exclusively in Linux, or for tasks such as holding additional Linux programs, you've got to resize your partitions, shrinking the Windows partition(s) and giving space to the Linux partition(s). Furthermore, Linux includes no good NTFS recovery tools ( ntfsfix does only the most basic checks and flags the partition as needing attention in Windows).
Also, there's a caveat: For native Linux use, NTFS is slow and lacks features that Linux requires for some purposes. You don't normally install programs there, but you might be able to use that space for storing user files. In this scheme, deleting files in Windows will make space available in Ubuntu, but only under /windows. For instance, your main Windows partition might be mounted to /windows. In Linux, partitions are mounted to particular directories. If it exists, use it, and it will then be (relatively) safe to remove the recovery partition. (I'd expect them to use USB flash drives today.) You could look for such a thing. I don't know offhand if Windows 8 installations come with similar tools. These could then take the place of the recovery partition. In the Windows 7 era, pre-installed versions of Windows typically came with programs to create a set of recovery DVDs.
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