compacting an Ubuntu partition

[Karl Auer]

Hi all.

I have an 80GB HDD with about 5GB used. There used to be more like 75GB
in use, but I have moved most of that to another disk. Now I want to
virtualise the HDD. The HDD contains a bootable Linux system, all in one
partition (except swap, of course).

Virtualising 75GB of unused space is a waste of time and disk space, so
I want to compact the HDD down to around 10GB, and virtualise that.

gparted looks like it will do the job, but after reading the manual and
various help pages it is still not clear to me whether gparted will
preserve and compact the data on the HDD as part of the resizing
operation.

Can I use gparted in this way? Will it preserve the 5GB of data as it
resizes the partition?

Regards, K.

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