need help installing Fedora using partition magic

[Tim Writer]

Zbigniew Koziol <zkoziol-Zd07PnzKK1IAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> When I hear about Partition Magic on a Linux list, I wonder: who is asking?
> 
> True, it is easier for a newbie to use PM than fips. But one ought to pay for
> PM. For fips no. Fips is not easy to learn nor simple for a
> medium-experienced Linux user. But when I had choice between the two I could
> not resit fips: just as a chalange. And yes, I reformated HD of a comp I am
> using, with fips (the comp is not owned by me at all and it is worth more
> than 4000 C$). Now I have both windows and linux there. Risky? Yes. Now
> though during my life I will not buy PM - I will use fips only.

AFAIK, FIPS only works with FAT partitions not NTFS and, it seems to me, most
XP installations use NTFS by default.  Another free tool is ntfsresize:

    http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html

which I've used successfully to shrink NTFS partitions on several occasions.
Having said that, there always seems to be a limit to how much space
ntfsresize can recover, even after disabling the Windows swap file and
defragging.  Once I was able to free up about half of a 30GB disk but
sometimes I've only been able to get a couple of gig at the end of the disk.

If you're dealing with a new system, the best approach is probably to
re-install XP into a much smaller partition.  This way you get to experience
first hand the pain of installing Windows compared with the ease of
installing Linux.

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