Shrink Windows partition to permit a UBUNTU partition

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Mon Aug 18 16:19:29 UTC 2008


Mark Haney wrote:
> You want to defragment the partition in such as way as to make all the
> data be toward the front of the partition (logically speaking) if you
> plan on shrinking the partition from the back.  The standard windows
> defragmenter is perfect for this.

Actually that is what I wanted to do, but the Windows XP defragmenter 
doesn't have the option to move everything towards the front of the 
partition. That may be different for other versions of Windows, but with 
Windows XP it isn't possible.


Nils




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