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

[Felix Miata]

On 2012-12-13 14:21 (GMT-0700) Chris Murphy composed:

> shrinking Windows partition creates an unusable dual-boot setup
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875944
> Resize of NTFS partition results in partition smaller than the filesystem, broken Windows install
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885912

> I think there are two bugs that qualify as blocker.

> 1.
> Anaconda is simply asking for way too much space for Fedora, and in my view that's bug 875944. It appears anaconda is accepting ntfsresize minimum plus a small amount of padding. Regardless, it's taking too much away from Windows, and even if the resize worked, it renders Windows functionally useless until Fedora is removed and Windows is resized to something sensible.

Something should be done to get people to resize Windows Vista+ partitions in 
advance using Windows' own resizer, leaving the installer to just use 
freespace. WinXP can get by on a whole lot less space, much of which is 
dictated by the amount of installed RAM.
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