Fedora 20 on Dell Precision M3850

[Joe Zeff]

On 06/23/2014 08:18 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> So, I first defragmented and then tried to shrink the W7 partition on
> Windoze. However, the 500 GBib disk is shown as having only 226 GB
> availability. What is in the rest of it? This is new and I have only
> logged in, not added anything. What would happen if I used the Fedora
> Installer (anaconda? ) to shrink? How does one do this without
> removing/erasing/damaging the partition?

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: 
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php 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.