<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Joe Zeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@zeff.us" target="_blank">joe@zeff.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">On 06/23/2014 08:18 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:<br>
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So, I first defragmented and then tried to shrink the W7 partition on<br>
Windoze. However, the 500 GBib disk is shown as having only 226 GB<br>
availability. What is in the rest of it? This is new and I have only<br>
logged in, not added anything. What would happen if I used the Fedora<br>
Installer (anaconda? ) to shrink? How does one do this without<br>
removing/erasing/damaging the partition?<br>
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My understanding is that it's safer, in general, to shrink ntfs partitions from within Windows. However, you might consider getting a live image of GParted from here: <a href="http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php" target="_blank">http://gparted.sourceforge.<u></u>net/livecd.php</a> making a LiveCD/USB and using that to see just what's on your hard drive and doing whatever shrinking is needed from that first. Anaconda may be able to shrink partitions, but I've never needed to do it and don't know how reliable it is. In any event, please make sure that you have a backup of that partition before you modify it.<div class="HOEnZb">
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-- <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">The only software I have used that CONSISTENTLY and RELIABLY shrunk<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">
an NTFS partition to make room for dual boot (installation of another OS),<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">has been ParttionMagic 8.0.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">
Unfortunately, it is only available for win32. It will NOT run on<br>win64. I know, because I tried it!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">On win32, it will shrink NTFS to the desired size and fix any<br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">dependencies in the bootstrap code and the boot sector.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">
After it finishes, you need to reboot windows for it to<br>complete the operation, and you're done.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">I have tried Linux based software for shrinking NTFS windows<br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">partitions - and windows became unbootable, so that using the<br>windows install DVD to run fixboot and fixmbr did not work at all!!!<br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">Was a big loss!!<br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div>