I haven't had a problem resizing a windows partition in several years. The
partition tools for Linux have gotten MUCH more intelligent in the recent
past. You might not be able to shrink the Windows partition as much as you
want to, but as long as you let the tool tell you the maximum it is OK. I
just helped a colleague resize a paritition and dual boot Ubuntu 10.04 with
Win Vista this weekend, and except for the process taking ~30 minutes to
complete, the resize process was completely painless. We shrunk the Windows
part by 20GB to make space for a decent Linux installation. I haven't tried
with a Windows 7 machine yet though, so there could be issues I'm unaware of
there.
-Mike
--
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. -- Richard Feynman
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:12 PM, <abr...@peak.org> wrote:
> ----- "Russell Johnson" <r...@dimstar.net> wrote:
> > On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:34 PM, abr...@peak.org wrote:
> >
> > > Does anybody know what MS has done to make their system so
> > > easy to corrupt if we let Linux resize it's installed partition?
> >
> > In my experience, the boot loader and the first couple of files loaded
> > for Windows are very very fragile. Moving them from their place in the
> > drive boot record and at the beginning of the partition can make the
> > system break. There may be other things going on too. I have resized
> > NTFS partitions with Partition Magic and PartED, but it always
> > requires rebooting and letting Windows scandisk fix what it thinks is
> > corruptions.
>
> But wasn't this true (and anticipated by Linux installers) way back
> before WinXP?
>
> > That's actually what makes the installation I outlined work well.
> > Windows never knows it's not the only OS on the system. As far as the
> > boot loader knows, it's being called as it should be. The difference
> > being grub or lilo (or your bootloader of choice) call the windows
> > loader, rather than the BIOS directly calling it.
> >
> > Russell Johnson
> > r...@dimstar.net
>
> I understand this.
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