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jpjenkins

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Registered: 2014-03-24

Posts: 104

Resizing partition for windows

Hi everyone, so yeah, resizing my /home partition so I can fit windows onto my hard drive.

I have my main HDD, sda1 has my root files '/' and sda2 has my /home

I've backed up /home to an external but I'm a little uncertain of what to do next. I was planning on using cfdisk to format /home and create a smaller one, then create an ntfs partition. Can I do all of this inside of cfdisk? (only used this once when I was installing arch).

Then what about grub? Do I have to do anything special for that?

I've looked around a little and can't find anything similar to my situation, sorry if I've missed something obvious! Thanks folks

shulamy

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From: israel

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 456

Re: Resizing partition for windows

you don't have to delete the partition,

you can resize it (if not with cfdisk - with partition editor - like gparted).

you have to add windows to grub (manualy or with os-prober).

and i think all these are in the wiki.

ezik