[ltp] Installing Linux on a TP40 (2373-75U)

[Paul Kaplan]

Good news!
Partition Magic 8 was able to shrink the sole W2K NTFS 5 partition from 36Gb 
to 10Gb.  (I think I could have gone even smaller, since PM reported that 
there was only about 4.7 Gb of data.)  As far as I can tell when PM shrinks 
it moves both the pagefile and, more importantly, the MFT mirror file, which, 
by default is placed close to the middle of the partition.
It's a shame that ntfsresize doesn't have that ability.  It seems only to be 
able to shrink to the end of the last sector containing $mftmirr.
Paul

On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:27 am, mukesh agrawal wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jens Kirch wrote:
> > I have successfully resized mz partition on my T40p with WinXP and the
> > service partition. Do not unhide the service partition, becasue you might
> > loose it.
> > For me it worked fine using PM 8.0
>
> Does Partition Magic let you shrink the partition to (near) its minimal
> size (the size of the data actually present on the disk)?
>
> Or is it limited by things like where Windows puts its paging file?