Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Rob Owens<rowens@ptd.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:30:06PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
>> Rob Owens wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:49:18PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yup, no problem as long as you have some unpartitioned disk space on
>>>> your hard drive. If not, you can use gparted from a live cd to shrink
>>>> your windows partition. It might be that you need to defragment (in
>>>> windows!) your partition first.
>>>> If this all sound too complicated, getting a second hard drive and
>>>> installing linux on that is of course also an option.
>>>>
>>>> Sjoerd
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Just to be clear, is gparted smart enough not to shrink the partition so
>>> much that it cuts off data from the partition? In other words, does it
>>> only use the empty space at the end of the partition?
>>>
>>
>> g or qtparted both show you how much space is used on each partition.
>>
> Thanks for the info. To save myself some experimenting, do you know if it simply identifies the amount of data on the partition, or the amount of "real estate" that data
> occupies. For instance, a very small amount of data could be spread across 80% of the partition, if it is badly fragmented.
>From what I remember, gparted wouldn't repartition a frag'd drive.
>
> -Rob
>
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