Reducing an existing Linux partition for Windows use....

[Matt Graham]

After a long battle with technology, eculbert wrote:
> I need to do the opposite! Resize/shrink a xp w/3 partitions on it. What is
> safe?

"Is it safe?  Is it safe?"  (Fortunately, you won't have to go that far.)

> Can linux partitioning software safely reduce an xp partition and [have the 
> existing 'DozeXP] still work?

It's worked for me on the laptops I've owned.  Boot the gparted LiveCD or the 
SysRescCD.  Start gparted.  Use the rather friendly GUI to resize and move 
NTFS, FAT, ext23, and ReiserFS partitions.  Note that it doesn't do LVM yet, 
though.

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