Shrinking a FAT32 partition on USB drive

[Jerry Lapham]

On Saturday, March 23, 2013 01:24:01 AM Basil Chupin wrote:

> To begin with, if you want to shrink a partition formatted in a Windows 
> file system you first need to DEFRAGMENT that partition - which, in your 
> case, is the whole 160GB HDD. And the only way you are going to do this 
> is to boot into Windows and do a defrag of the partition. Then you can 
> go about shrinking it using, say, Gparted -- I didn't know that KDE 
> Partition Manager could do this, but then it is based on Gparted.
> Anyway....

Thanks.  It took several tries but I finally got Win7 to defrag it.  It had 
kept saying it was 0% fragmented.  Windows Partition Manager wouldn't shrink 
it but KDE Partition Manager did.  BTW, it says it's using libparted.

After all that I found I didn't need to shrink the partition after all. I 
could have let Clonezilla just create its directory on the big partition.

	-Jerry
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