Shrinking Windows Partition?

[Ed Sutherland]

Thanks. I was reading on linux migration that Redhat and Mandrake had 
such on-the-fly Windows partition resizers, so I'm glad to hear Hoary 
has one now. I didn't see it when I previously installed using Warty.

Ed


Richard Barry wrote:

>The Hoary installer can do it for you.  Just select manual partitioning,
>then select the NTFS (windows) partition and change the size of it.  I
>installed Hoary RC yesterday and it worked fine.  It's not 100%
>intuitive though, I would have liked an option (for dummies/noobs) like
>"Resize NTFS partition and use new partition to install Ubuntu" that
>just asks you what size you want the partitions to be.  It might be a
>little scary for a new user as it is at the moment. 
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>On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:49 -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote:
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>>Can I shrink my single Windows partition and add a second partition (for 
>>Ubuntu) without having to delete/reinstall Windows? I know there is 
>>PartitionMagic, but the demo version is crippled. Any suggestions? (My 
>>Windows install is early enough that I won't destroy a lot of work, but 
>>I still don't want to take any more steps than I need.) Thanks.
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