On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 3:40:04 PM UTC+5:30, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 09:53:14PM -0800, Rusi Mody wrote:
> > Trying to setup linux on lenovo laptop.
> > I find that its gpt as expected and there are some 5 partitions
> > (as shown by compmgmt in windows)
> > 
> > | recovery      | 1G   |
> > | EFI           | 260M |
> > | OEM           | 1G   |
> > | Windows8 (C:) | 424G |
> > | Lenovo   (D:) | 25G  |
> > | Recovery      | 14G  |
> > 
> > Clearly its the windows (C:) that needs to be shrunk for the linux.
> > 
> > Q.1  In the past (mbr) Ive invaribly found that adding a partition
> > in the middle causes all sorts of trouble.
> > 
> > How is it with gpt?
> 
> With GPT, all partitions are equal members - that is, the whole
> Primary/Extended/Logical mess is gone; a partition is a partition. That
> being the case, you shouldn't have any problems shrinking C: and putting
> Linux in the middle. If this is a traditional ("spinning rust") disk,
> then you probably want to consider sliding D: up against the shrunk C:,
> though, just to minimise head seek while in Windows (that is, if you're
> reading files from both C: and D:, then not having to hop over the Linux
> partition will make seek times shorter).

That seems like a neat idea.
However this:
http://gparted.org/faq.php#faq-6
as I understand warns about doing this from outside windows.

And best as I can see windows compmgmt allows make/delete but does not allow 
moving partitions.


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