Shrink Windows partition to permit a UBUNTU partition

[Karl Larsen]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> 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
>
>   
    I do not hear the requirement to defrag the hard drive voiced often. 
I think it is critical to do that first. My Wife's XP gets defrag'ed 
every time she complains her computer is too slow :-)

Karl


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