Partitioning-error during 6.06-install

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Tue, 30 May 2006 12:17:29 +0200, Robert Spanjaard wrote:

> I Just tried to install 6.06 on my notebook, which had two partitions when
> I started: a Windows NTFS-partition of 72 GB with about 62 GB free, and a
> FAT32-partition (probably for recovery) of 1.9 GB.
> 
> When I got to the partitioner, I selected to edit the partitions manually:
> - Resize the Windows-partition to 15 GB (which would leave about 5 GB free
>   on that partition)
  [...]
> free space. After the partition-check, Windows booted, I opened explorer
> and... saw a partition of 15 GB!
> 
> So now, I have Windows reporting 15 GB with 5 GB free, and GParted
> reporting 72 GB, also with 5 GB free. How can I solve this problem?

Fixed it. In GParted, I resized the partition from 72 to 71 GB, and then
the amount of used space was fixed automatically. So I could resize it to
15 GB again, and this time it worked.

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