Shrinking Windows Partition?

[Sébastien Bonnefoy]

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? 
> (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.
>
> Ed
>
>
You can do that with parted or qparted which is the same with a GUI, 
very similar to partitionMagic. The only issue is that it doesn't work 
on windows. But there is an easy solution, if you have a good internet 
connection : downloads http://www.sysresccd.org/ . Just write it on a 
cd, boot from it and type qparted on the shell and you will be able to 
resize your widows partition... Knoppix or Mepis live distribution 
contains it also.

Séb