On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:05:31PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > 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? usual caveats apply, but: nope. I've done it twice in recent months and it works just fine. It will cause a windows checkdisk run on the next windows boot (and that's a good thing). A
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