On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Rob Owens<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:30:06PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: >> Rob Owens wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:49:18PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >>> >>>> Yup, no problem as long as you have some unpartitioned disk space on >>>> your hard drive. If not, you can use gparted from a live cd to shrink >>>> your windows partition. It might be that you need to defragment (in >>>> windows!) your partition first. >>>> If this all sound too complicated, getting a second hard drive and >>>> installing linux on that is of course also an option. >>>> >>>> Sjoerd >>>> >>>> >>> Just to be clear, is gparted smart enough not to shrink the partition so >>> much that it cuts off data from the partition? In other words, does it >>> only use the empty space at the end of the partition? >>> >> >> g or qtparted both show you how much space is used on each partition. >> > Thanks for the info. To save myself some experimenting, do you know if it > simply identifies the amount of data on the partition, or the amount of "real > estate" that data > occupies. For instance, a very small amount of data could be spread across > 80% of the partition, if it is badly fragmented.
>From what I remember, gparted wouldn't repartition a frag'd drive. > > -Rob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
