----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 07:18 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 13:03, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Ok I just went and booted CD1 for 9.2 install. There is a screen > with two options Install and F1 for help. Clicking on install goes > directely to install this is what I normally use. That's right - you start as if to install. If you select expert mode when it gets to the partitioning you will see what I mean > So I pushed F1. > And got an install help screen it lists 4 options vgalo, text, > linux, expert also a little later rescue. There is no mention of > shrinking the windows partition anywhere on the page, there is an > option for another help page F2. Pushed F2 and find 2 aditional > options vgahi, vga16, again no mention of shrinking windows. > I dont use expert because it is likely dangerous, at lease for me, > since I dont have a clue as to what options I will be asked to > select. > I do understand the anxiety, Hoyt, but there really is no danger. As long as you don't actually tell it to shrink the partition or whatever you will be able to abort and nothing will have changed. What happens if you do tell it to carry on is that it warns you that it is going to write the new partition table. Allowing that is when you are committed, with no way back. Take a look, go into expert mode when it gets to partitioning, take a good look, then exit. Give yourself time to think about what you have seen. If you have any questions come back before going in to do the real install. I promise you that you are safe if you exit from expert mode when you have just looked at the partitioning. Anne -- I went I saw I didnt do very well. I did find the resize option but it said I should run chkdisk from the run command. Windows couldnt find chkdisk. As an alternative it also suggested defragment. Results as follows: Volume size: 46.54GB Cluster size: 4KB Used space: 6.48GB Free space: 40.096GB Percent free space: 86% Total fragmention: 0% Total files: 30,447 Average frag' per file: 1 Toral frag': 1 Pagefile size: 377MB Total fragments: 1 Total folders: 1961 Fragmented folders: 1 Total MFT file: 76MB Percent MFT in use: 41 Total MFT fragments: 3 I dont know what this all means but the # of fragments dont add up. Also the unmoveable files moved out of the group of files, on the defragmention screen, that are contiguous that is new. I originally established the windows partition at 50GB. My current plan is to shrink it to 25GB. Is this rational ? Also is it possible for windows and linux to use the same swap file, currently windows recognizes the swap file in linux as a logical partition? I feel like I'm getting into deep dodo. Hoyt
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