On Monday 26 February 2007 4:13 pm, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > 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... >
The defrag left a portion of the disk used somewhere in the middle. I don't know why it left that data unmoved but I at least have 20 gig at the end. Thanks for the link. I just d'loaded gparted and will give it a try. -- Kelly Terry 587 Beverly Orem, Utah 84057 (801) 400-7390 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
