Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?
I'm getting a new Thinkpad Z61M and shall be installing Debian
(naturally!). When I last did this on a Thinkpad a couple of years ago I
just deleted the Windows partition completely, but I have found, *very*
rarely, that I needed it.
I'd therefore like to keep Windows, at least for the moment, so I'll
need to shrink its partition. Two questions:
a. How small could its partition be? Would 10 GB be enough, or too much?
b. 3.5: If I understand the Debian Installation manual correctly, I can
do this by simply selecting a different size for the partition during
the installation process.
"If your machine has a FAT or NTFS filesystem, as used by DOS
and Windows, you can wait and use Debian installer's
partitioning program to resize the filesystem."
Won't this destroy all the Windows stuff?
Anthony
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