Install along side Windows (blocker) bugs, 875944 and 885912

Brian Marshall bmarsd at gmail.com
Fri Dec 14 00:20:28 UTC 2012


On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 05:21:03PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2012-12-13 17:04 (GMT-0500) Tom Horsley composed:
> >The trouble with that is that the Windows resizer is not very good.
> >I tried to do that, but Windows had this giant partition with supposedly
> >"unmoveable" data structures right in the middle, and wouldn't let me
> >resize smaller than the end of that.
> 
> Those who follow all the instructions don't have that problem. Those
> "unmovable" areas are usually the swap file and/or the hibernation
> file. Disable those, reboot, and resize can work as expected. Doing
> it in safe mode may help if it turns out there are other "unmovable"
> areas.

I've never had any success with repartitioning in Windows. That's just going to
harm adoption of Fedora if you require users to do extra unfamiliar and
frustrating steps in Windows. There's no technical reason for that either -
Linux can resize NTFS fine, it's just seems to be a regression in Anaconda for
now.

-- Brian


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