Shrinking Windows Partition?

[Richard Barry]

Yes, When I last used Mandrake the resizing was very painless, I'd love
it if Ubuntu's installer was that simple.  It's about 98% there, just
not 100% (at the moment it's just a user interface thing, not
funtionality).

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:04 -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote:
> Thanks. I was reading on linux migration that Redhat and Mandrake had 
> such on-the-fly Windows partition resizers, so I'm glad to hear Hoary 
> has one now. I didn't see it when I previously installed using Warty.
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> Ed
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> Richard Barry wrote:
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> >The Hoary installer can do it for you.  Just select manual partitioning,
> >then select the NTFS (windows) partition and change the size of it.  I
> >installed Hoary RC yesterday and it worked fine.  It's not 100%
> >intuitive though, I would have liked an option (for dummies/noobs) like
> >"Resize NTFS partition and use new partition to install Ubuntu" that
> >just asks you what size you want the partitions to be.  It might be a
> >little scary for a new user as it is at the moment. 
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> >On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:49 -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote:
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> >>Can I shrink my single Windows partition and add a second partition (for 
> >>Ubuntu) without having to delete/reinstall Windows? I know there is 
> >>PartitionMagic, but the demo version is crippled. Any suggestions? (My 
> >>Windows install is early enough that I won't destroy a lot of work, but 
> >>I still don't want to take any more steps than I need.) Thanks.
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