[Bug 77302] Re: ntfsresize cannot shrink XP without leaving ~300MB of wasted disk; gparted unhelpful.

[Phillip Susi]

This appears to have been fixed back in 2006.  From the git history:

commit 9d956594d6acf0d983ae9105df2f3772194a5404
Author: Bart Hakvoort <hakvoort at src.gnome.org>
Date:   Sun Aug 27 12:05:05 2006 +0000

    replaced ntfscluster with ntfsresize (see #350789)

    * src/ntfs.cc: replaced ntfscluster with ntfsresize (see #350789)


** Changed in: gparted (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  ntfsresize cannot shrink XP without leaving ~300MB of wasted disk;
  gparted unhelpful.

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When installing (Edgy/Ubuntu), I wanted to shrink my XP partition to the smallest possible size. The minimum apparent partition size was 8GB, but if I selected this, ntfsresize would fail. I don't recall that gparted gave any sort of helpful error message. In fact, you need to leave about 300MB more space than you think, and 
  everything is happy. This isn't really a bug in ntfsresize, more that the installer should explain the need for leaving XP some headroom.

  [Incidentally, the machine is a new thinkpad, which has only ever booted WinXP about 10 times, and on which I have installed nothing. IBM shipped a few trivial
  utilities (acroread, dvdplayer, antivirus). 8GB is rather bloated ;-) ]

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