how to instal linux

[Mario Vukelic]

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 01:37 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
> Ironically, defragmentation does nothing of the sort.  It groups the
> files together.  Watch it when you do it, it shows you where all the
> files go; they wind up wherever is closest to where most of the data
> was before, if possible. 

I have watched it many times, and for me it always freed up the end of
the partition. And all distros that had ntfs resizers recommended to do
this for a long time, just google it. However it seems that you are
right that it is not needed anymore, if the installer indeed uses
ntfsprogs (I am not sure): http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/15/29/