compacting an Ubuntu partition

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 20:40 +0530, Pritam Baral wrote:
> Yes, gparted preserves the data when it resizes the partition.

I thought it would, but wanted some confirmation - thanks.

> But I would recommend doing it small steps of 20~30gb.

Do you mean I should reduce the partition from 80 to 60, then from 60 to
40, then from 20 to 20 then from 20 to 10, rather than just reducing it
in one step?

How strange. I'd have thought that with so much free space and with so
small a target size, compaction would be easier and faster, not harder
and slower! I'd have thought that compacting in a cramped space would be
much harder and thus much slower.

Regards, K.

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