Re: shrinking Windows C: drive to make room for Linux

"George N. White III" <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 4 Aug 2023 10:15:10 -0300

On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 7:33 PM Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 10:26 AM Bill Cunningham <bill.cu1234@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    On 8/3/2023 6:14 AM, George N. White
      III wrote:

        On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 12:37 AM Michael Hennebry
          <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          wrote:

          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.

          I've been shrinking the Windows partition to make space
            for linux using 
          Windows Disk Management for years.   There are caveats. 
            See:

          <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/shrink-a-basic-volume>

        -- 

            George N. White III

    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.

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. 

-- 
George N. White III

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