Re: Thinking about moving to Linux permanently, should I keep my Windows drive?

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On 2026-05-11, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

> On 5/10/26 10:40, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> The laptop I'm writing this on is a Lenovo T410 which came with
>> Windows 7 installed.  I've very seldom needed it, but I decided
>> to keep it around by re-partitioning the disk and making it dual-boot.
>> Beware - Windows tends to put a Master File Table smack in the middle
>> of its partition, and it's not movable by normal means.  I found a
>> good abnormal means in the form of PefectDisk from Raxco; it enabled
>> me to shrink the Windows partition on my 250GB disk down to about 60GB.
>> I installed Linux in the freed-up space and made it the default on boot.
>
> You can use or could at any rate. use the Windows disk tools to do the
> same thing.  You reduce the on disk empty files to a very small number
> then resize the Windows partition.

My knowledge might be out of date now, but at the time I was doing this
it was impossible to shrink the Windows partition to less than half of
its size using Windows tools because of that immovable MFT in the middle.

-- 
/~\  Charlie Gibbs                  |  Growth for the sake of
\ /  <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>      |  growth is the ideology
 X   I'm really at ac.dekanfrus     |  of the cancer cell.
/ \  if you read it the right way.  |    -- Edward Abbey

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