On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 10:26 AM Bill Cunningham <bill.cu1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/3/2023 6:14 AM, George N. White III wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 12:37 AM Michael Hennebry < > henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > >> None of the hits I got from search made explicit that one >> could shrink the C: partition even while it was in use. >> They focused on getting around Windows shrink's liomitations. >> From the list responses, I gather that one can >> indeed srink the C: partition while it is in use. >> > > I've been shrinking the Windows partition to make space for linux using > Windows Disk Management for years. There are caveats. See: > > < > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/shrink-a-basic-volume > > > > > -- > George N. White III > > One thing I have noticed while on the subject of partitions , is that most > partition systems leave some extra space unaccounted for. I free this up > with gparted myself. I haven't used windows to shrink a partition for a > while and I am sure it does the same thing. Windows reports some space but > not all of it, while gparted does report all the space. > > B > > > I just went through this to install Fedora on my wife's laptop. I tried the windows shrink, but it would only free up 128MB of the 60GB that should have been available. I followed elaborate instructions to tell windows not to use a paging file, and also turned off some other feature that uses hidden space, but never got windows to free up more than 128MB. I gave up and stole the recovery partition, which was 18GB. Not much, but good enough for now.
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