Hello John,
On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:07:08 -0700 John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote: > On 7/19/2014 2:55 PM, wwp wrote: > > nor > > shrink the NTFS partition in order to install the CentOS6 system on > > disk. > > I strongly dislike shrinking file systems in place, and prefer to backup > the whole FS, repartition the disk, then restore the FS to the new > smaller partition. for Windows NTFS systems, I usually do this with > Acronis True Image Home. > > but, I really dislike multibooting different OS's, its just a general > pain. there's all sorts of gotchas, for example: do NOT let the > windows system hibernate instead of fully shut down if you're going to > touch NTFS with another OS or you'll likely get some hellacious file > system corruptions. Well, to my (pretty long) experience in computers (though I'm still asking for advice), I quite never met any of the points you're mentioning, with dual boots and shrinking system FS's. Anyhow, accepting your experience and thanking you for sharing it, I don't find in you reply any answer to my question ;-). Regards, -- wwp
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