On Thu, 2023-08-03 at 18:32 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > 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. Asking the obvious: Was the drive defragmented? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.92.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 20 11:48:01 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue