On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:13:20 +0100, Mariusz PÄkala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-02-06 20:19:58 +0000 (Sun, Feb), Martin Scharrer wrote: > > On Sunday 06 February 2005 17:53, Collins Richey wrote: > > > > > [...] WinXP in its great > > > wisdom (NOT) puts the Windows Swap file right in the middle of the > > > partition, and that file is marked as unmovable, so with all the tools > > > I'm aware of, you will only be able to get half of the space (starting > > > right after the swap file) free for use as new partitions for Linux. > > > Because I don't had any problems to resize a 40GB Windows XP Home partition > > down to 8GB on my Laptop. > > I managed to shrink 20GB into 7GB for XP on my laptop and I remember no > troubles with that. I did it using only GNUish tools: sys-fs/ntfsprogs , > no PartitionMagic. > > As for the swapfile - you can always temporarily disable virtual memory > in WinXP, reboot, test that WinXP is alive, repartition, reboot to > WinXp, enable virtual memory and live happily ever after. >
YMMV, I tried that, but WinXP still left an unmoveable file in the middle of the disk even after turning off virtual memory. I'm not a windows expert, so I don't have a clue what the file was. So, I was left with the convenience of getting half the space freed quickly and the inconvenience of some unused space in the WinXP partition. Good luck. -- Collins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
