How to shrink a windows partition to make more room for Linux?

[Jason Holtzapple]

joe at actionline.com wrote:
> How can I shrink the ntfs file system /dev/sda5 shown in the following
> screen capture:
> 
> - - - http://upquick.com/linux/gparted1.png - - -
> 
> to make room to increase the size of my Linux home partition /dev/sda8 ?
> 
> I've used ntfsresize to reduce the size of the sda5 partition from 158 gig
> to 67 gig, but gparted will not allow me to shrink (resize) sda5.  The
> "Resize/Move" option in gparted is grayed out as shown in the screen
> capture.
> 
> So what else can I do to shrink sda5?

Have you booted from a gparted live cd? The only time I've seen locks
like that is when running gparted when there are mounted file systems.

--Jason

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