On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 10:26 AM Bill Cunningham <bill.cu1234(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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> On 8/3/2023 6:14 AM, George N. White III wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 12:37 AM Michael Hennebry <
> hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
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>> None of the hits I got from search made explicit that one
>> could shrink the C: partition even while it was in use.
>> They focused on getting around Windows shrink's liomitations.
>> From the list responses, I gather that one can
>> indeed srink the C: partition while it is in use.
>>
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> I've been shrinking the Windows partition to make space for linux using
> Windows Disk Management for years. There are caveats. See:
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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/...
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> --
> George N. White III
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> One thing I have noticed while on the subject of partitions , is that
> most partition systems leave some extra space unaccounted for. I free this
> up with gparted myself. I haven't used windows to shrink a partition for a
> while and I am sure it does the same thing. Windows reports some space but
> not all of it, while gparted does report all the space.
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>
> I just went through this to install Fedora on my wife's laptop. I tried
the windows shrink, but it would only free up 128MB of the 60GB that should
have been available. I followed elaborate instructions to tell windows not
to use a paging file, and also turned off some other feature that uses
hidden space, but never got windows to free up more than 128MB. I gave up
and stole the recovery partition, which was 18GB. Not much, but good
enough for now.
I generally do this on a fresh install of Windows before files that
couldn't be
moved accumulated.
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George N. White III