Resizing with gparted for Fedora installation

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Apr 2 14:00:58 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 16:17 +0300, Mark Ryden wrote:
> Hello,
>   I have a new Lenovo laptop with Windows Vista on it. I want to install Linux
> on it while keeping vista on it (though I rarely intend to use Vista,
> keeping vista is a MUST for me). So I want it to be dual boot. There is
> one partition on the disk, with 160GB. I consider using gparted livecd for it.
> In fact, I did not used the
> There is a way to Windows Vista except booting once into the system, so most of
> the disk is free.
> I know how to use the resize feature of gparted. I intend to resize
> the partition
> to 20 GB and then create a new parition in the free space which will be
> created. On the new paritition I intend to install the Linux.
> My questions are:
> 1) Is it safe to do resizing with gparted ?
> 2) I saw in the web in some post :
> run:
> #ntfsfix -V
> and then:
> if you don't see version 2 don't use this version of gparted on Vista
> NTFS volumes
> 
> 3) This can be done also by ntfsresize, thus:
> ntfsresize -s 20G /dev/sda1
> 
> Is ntfsresize -s 20G any better ? safer? or is it in fact the same
> (but not from
> the GUI)?
> 
> Regards,
> Mark Ryden
> 
You probably want to defrag the disk first,
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