Shrinking Windows Partition?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:49 -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote:
> 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? 

Use gparted in Ubuntu 5.04:


mario at phonic: ~ $ aptitude show gparted
Package: gparted
(...)
Version: 0.0.8+cvs2005022001-0ubuntu1
(...)
Recommends: jfsutils, xfsprogs, ntfsprogs, dosfstools, hfsutils,
reiserfsprogs
Description: partition editor for GNOME
 It is a graphical editor which uses libparted to detect and manipulate
devices and partition tables while several
 (optional) filesystem tools provide support for filesystems not
included in libparted. These optional packages will be
 detected at runtime. It currently supports ext2, ext3, Reiser3, FAT,
NTFS, XFS, JFS, HFS and Linux swap.


You probably need to install the recommended package ntfsprogs too