On Monday 26 February 2007 15:51, Kelly Terry wrote: > I was going to install Fedora on a friends computer. He has windows xp > pro installed so I defragmented the drive. He's using only about 5 gb > of a 75 gb hard drive. The graphic showed a lot (at least 20gb) of > unused space at the end of the drive after defragmenting. If I use the > tool that comes with mandriva for shrinking the ntfs partition by 10 gb > to install linux will that render the windows ntfs partition unusable? > I've done this with fat 32 file systems with no problem many times > before but never on an ntfs partition. There's really no important > data to back up - just the windows install with drivers and very little > software. Still my friend is nervous and doesn't want to risk a > windows reinstall.
Just curious, how does "no important data to back up - just the windows install with drivers and very little software." consume nearly 55GB ? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
