On 2012-12-13 16:20 (GMT-0800) Brian Marshall composed:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 05:21:03PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
Those who follow all the instructions don't have that problem. Those
"unmovable" areas are usually the swap file and/or the hibernation
file. Disable those, reboot, and resize can work as expected. Doing
it in safe mode may help if it turns out there are other "unmovable"
areas.
I've never had any success with repartitioning in Windows. That's just going to
harm adoption of Fedora if you require users to do extra unfamiliar and
What I wrote was not meant to suggest a requirement. When I wrote "get people
to" it was meant to "suggest" or "induce", neither of which = require.
frustrating steps in Windows. There's no technical reason for that either -
Linux can resize NTFS fine, it's just seems to be a regression in Anaconda for
now.
What percentage of people break Windows by using Windows to resize Windows?
What percentage of people break Windows by using (any) Linux installer to
resize Windows?
I suggest the latter would be the bigger number by far, at least,
historically. Hopefully any "newUI" installer would be expected to drop its
incidence before it's unleashed in a non-beta distro.
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