Shrink Windows partition to permit a UBUNTU partition

[Nils Kassube]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> 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.

I have used gparted to shrink NTFS partitions WITH data loss twice, so a 
backup of the user data is not only a good idea but mandatory IMHO. I 
suppose that the data loss was caused by the fragmented distribution of 
data blocks on the disk (even after using defrag). But I can't verify 
that assumption because a) those were not my disks and b) they are now 
used for Linux only :)


Nils