On 12/13/2009 05:38 AM, Alan Evans wrote: > I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its > massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like > to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. > > My question is this then: How safe is it really to allow the installer > to resize the existing partition with Win7 already there? I saw that > it had the option, but I was terrified to try it. Some would say partitioning is a process that always requires a backup, hence: - create a compressed backup of the new raw disc onto the old disk - run the resize during install - if it all goes foul, you have learnt how to create and use a backup. That said, I haven't seen anything go wrong with gparted / parted, well ever (in my memory, including expanding and shrinking an xp machine original ntfs drives, to fit linux). I quite often do the non-backed up version of messing with partitions on virtual machines without trouble. gparted indicates support for ntfs shrink. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
