Shrink Windows partition to permit a UBUNTU partition

[Mark Haney]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:

> 
> Actually that is what I wanted to do, but the Windows XP defragmenter 
> doesn't have the option to move everything towards the front of the 
> partition. That may be different for other versions of Windows, but with 
> Windows XP it isn't possible.
> 
> 
> Nils
> 


Yeah it's possible.  To a point.  You'll find that NTFS likes using the 
end of the drive for the metadata it uses to find the files on disk. 
(and the actual name of that completely escapes me at the moment). 
However, if you have relatively little data on that partiton, that space 
may be empty and if it gets damaged, nothing is lost, XP will just 
rebuild that when it needs it.


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