Hello, Still I am a little bewildered. I googled and read about it; still here is my dillema: there are 2 options which I consider: 1) running gparted from a Linux LiveCD, freeing space from the vista partition. then rebooting, making sure window vista can start, and then installing Linux on the freed space. 2) resizing while installing Linux. Suppose I have the rescue window CDs. which options is better ? Regards, Mark On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 16:17 +0300, Mark Ryden wrote: >> Hello, >> I have a new Lenovo laptop with Windows Vista on it. I want to install Linux >> on it while keeping vista on it (though I rarely intend to use Vista, >> keeping vista is a MUST for me). So I want it to be dual boot. There is >> one partition on the disk, with 160GB. I consider using gparted livecd for it. >> In fact, I did not used the >> There is a way to Windows Vista except booting once into the system, so most of >> the disk is free. >> I know how to use the resize feature of gparted. I intend to resize >> the partition >> to 20 GB and then create a new parition in the free space which will be >> created. On the new paritition I intend to install the Linux. >> My questions are: >> 1) Is it safe to do resizing with gparted ? >> 2) I saw in the web in some post : >> run: >> #ntfsfix -V >> and then: >> if you don't see version 2 don't use this version of gparted on Vista >> NTFS volumes >> >> 3) This can be done also by ntfsresize, thus: >> ntfsresize -s 20G /dev/sda1 >> >> Is ntfsresize -s 20G any better ? safer? or is it in fact the same >> (but not from >> the GUI)? > ---- > gparted should work but things to consider... > > Fedora 10 installer can resize NTFS partition on the fly when > installing. Gparted might be a bit easier (assuming that you make a boot > CD). > > If you have used the Windows for any length of time, defrag first. > > Leave any utility partitions alone, i.e. re-installation partitions etc. > so if necessary, you could reinstall Windows. > > After resizing, Windows will run a full repair on the next boot up, be > prepared to allow the time. > > Windows XP seems to require at least 12 Gigabytes with current SP3 and > Vista likely needs more. 20 should be OK. If space is not an issue, 24 > or 32 Gigabytes might be safer, especially if your need to use Windows > increases. > > Craig > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
