On Monday 26 February 2007 16:08, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > 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 ?
Okay, so you did say he's only using about 5GB (my reading incomprehension there), but it still makes me wonder why after the defrag you don't see a full 70GB hunk of space at the end... /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
