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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/03/2014 11:30 AM, "J. Van
Brimmer" wrote:<br>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hello,<br>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I
have just acquired a "new" refurbished Lenovo X140e netbook.
tI has Windows 7 Pro on it. The first thing I did after
booting it up was to go into Partition Management to shrink
the C partition to make room for Lubuntu. I was shocked to
discover that the partition manager would only shrink C by
50%. So, I went ahead and did that.<br>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Then,
I booted up a live CD of Gparted. Gparted says I can shrink C
way down a lot more. I don't remember how far it was, but it
was way down, less than 100 GB. <br>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Can
I safely follow Gparted's recommendation and not impact
Winbroke? I am not too terribly worried about it though. I am
going to create a restore image DVD, but I just thought I'd
ask to see if anyone has any experience on this before I get
started. <br>
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Jerry:<br>
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I once had a Windows partition that I re-sized way down to a size
that seemed reasonable at the time. It seemed reasonable because I
only use that system for testing. <br>
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A year or so later, that system was in-trouble because of
insufficient space. <br>
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The culprit? The space was used up by the multitude of Windows
updates. <br>
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I had to re-size the Windows partition to a larger size to rescue
the system (which involved resizing and even moving my Linux
partitions). <br>
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So by word of experience, in re-sizing a Windows partition, be sure
to leave it room to install the many necessary Windows updates. On
Windows 7 and above, it also creates a restore-point whenever you
install anything, and those restore-points take up disk space as
well. <br>
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I do recommend keeping your Windows partition around (and usable) if
you have one. Over the years, there have been many cases where I
was glad I saved it for those occasional things that won't run on
Linux, or for which Linux has no practical alternative. <br>
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Linux has been very reliable in re-sizing all of my Windows
partitions. In over 10 years of experience, it only failed once,
and in that case, there may have been disk errors in the Windows
partition. So make sure you do a disk check of the Windows
partition before re-sizing it. <br>
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Beware that on Windows 8, it may leave its partition in a 'suspend'
(hibernate) state, so re-sizing it could give you problems. <br>
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Sincerely,
Aere</pre>
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