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

[Eric Shubert]

Dazed_75 wrote:
> Interesting that I've had nothing but good luck with gparted with only 
> two exceptions:
> 1-it is sometimes fussy about doing too many operations in a row so I 
> tend to apply changes without waiting to specify the whole chain of 
> changes I want to do, and
> 2-it, like many other utilities, does not do as well at recovering a 
> flash drive by re-formatting as Windows does.  Or should I say that 
> formatting one in windows seems to do something extra that windows cares 
> about?
> 
> I have resized many NTFS partitions without resizing the NTFS file 
> system first.  Perhaps that is because gparted actually requires and 
> uses the ntfsprogs to do that work.  See:
>     http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php
> 
> I believe Parted Magic (or one of the others) also announced a few 
> months ago that they now successfully resize the NTFS file system as 
> part of resizing the partition.  I believe I posted that here back then.
> 
> My belief is that gparted won't do what he wants simply BECAUSE the file 
> system and the partition are not in sync and that may be BECAUSE he did 
> the manual resize of the file system first and then ran a tool that 
> expected to do that itself.
> 

I think Larry's right on the money here. (fwiw)

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:43 PM, gk <gm5729 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gm5729 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Ah, now we know.
> 
>     XP does NOT have its own resizer, only Vista and W7.
> 
>     BE warned if you resize an XP partition it takes hours and hours and
>     hours. So using a 3rd party resizer is necessary. I've never had
>     anything but problems with GParted, YMMV. Qtparted is good and there
>     are other 3rd party resizers available.
> 
>     Considering the time for a resize. IF you have your data backed up
>     AND you have the original XP discs, (we don't want ole bill to go
>     out of business; plus you have all your drivers. It's much easier to
>     nuke the partition and go from there. XP with office only needs
>     5-6GB disc space.
> 
>     Note about primary partions and logical. You can ONLY have 4 primary
>     partitions at one time ever. You may have up to 256 logical.
> 
>     I'm betting that since your fsck is okay on Windows if you looked at
>     that partition there are IMMoveable blocks towards the end of the
>     space. This would also prevent a resize.
> 
> 
>     gk
> 
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