[SOLVED] Shrink Windows Partition from Fedora

nine9nine · 01-11-2012, 05:49 PM

Hi, everyone. I want to move my /home to its own partition, so I need to shrink both my Linux partition and my windows partition to make room. Right now, I have 42 gigs of free space on my Windows partition, defragged it, but Windows wouldn't let me shrink the partition. Does anyone know a way to do this directly from Linux?

lucmove · 01-11-2012, 06:02 PM

Use a program called GParted. Or you can boot with System Rescue CD, it comes with GParted.

http://www.sysresccd.org

allend · 01-11-2012, 06:59 PM

If you are happy to work from the command line, use 'ntfsresize'.

syg00 · 01-11-2012, 08:59 PM

Given that the question needed to be asked I would caution against accepting the suggestion of @allend.
ntfsresize is easy (and safe) to use; the subsequent resizing of the partition itself significantly less so.

Use gparted - it'll do it all for you.

allend · 01-11-2012, 11:08 PM

The precautionary warning point is well made. Gparted is the easy and convenient option. I merely intended to point out that there is an alternative path using the tools underlying Gparted that does not require any additional software.

nine9nine · 01-13-2012, 02:08 PM

I used Gparted and it worked great. However, now I need to create the partition to use for my /home. I tried using Gparted, but it says I can't have more than 4 primary partitions. The one I have now are: 2 in Windows(System and TI105847W0F), and 2 in Linux (which don't have any names, but one of them says /boot). Is there any way I can have the fifth partition?

Janus_Hyperion · 01-13-2012, 05:59 PM

You will have to create an extended partition. Try using gparted. It might let you create a partition without formatting. I am not sure though.

nine9nine · 01-17-2012, 07:33 PM

I decided that since I don't use Windows anymore, I deleted it's partition, and just used its space for my home partition.