Shrink Windows partition to permit a UBUNTU partition

Smoot Carl-Mitchell smoot at tic.com
Mon Aug 18 01:27:22 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 21:04 -0400, elmo wrote:

> Can GPARTED do a safe job of shrinking the C: partition and create a 
> decent sized UBUNTU partition without loss of Windows:data?

gparted can shrink NTFS partitions.  I have done it several times
without any data loss.  It is still a good idea to back up the user
data, just in case.

You can check out the feature set here:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php
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