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When installing (Edgy/Ubuntu), I wanted to shrink my XP partition to the
smallest possible size. The minimum apparent partition size was 8GB, but if I
selected this, ntfsresize would fail. I don't recall that gparted gave any sort
of helpful error message. In fact, you need to leave about 300MB more space
than you think, and
everything is happy. This isn't really a bug in ntfsresize, more that the
installer should explain the need for leaving XP some headroom.
[Incidentally, the machine is a new thinkpad, which has only ever booted WinXP
about 10 times, and on which I have installed nothing. IBM shipped a few trivial
utilities (acroread, dvdplayer, antivirus). 8GB is rather bloated ;-) ]
** Affects: gparted (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Confirmed
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ntfsresize cannot shrink XP without leaving ~300MB of wasted disk; gparted
unhelpful.
https://beta.launchpad.net/bugs/77302
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