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Yeah, admittedly if you don't know what's going on there it might feel pretty convoluted and "wtf am I doing here". OTOH, on Linux you could do this since forev
by fps_doug 8y ago
Yeah, admittedly if you don't know what's going on there it might feel pretty convoluted and "wtf am I doing here". OTOH, on Linux you could do this since forever, it's not been that long ago that Windows finally shipped tools to do so. Now actually, Windows seems even more convenient since you can easily shrink a FS that is online. On Linux I'm not even sure that is possible; maybe with btrfs but I never really needed to do that, so I have no idea.
- nolok 8y ago> it's not been that long ago that Windows finally shipped tools to do so I beg to differ, Computer management > Disk management has allowed you to do that in a visual and safe way since at least windows seven in 2009. God knows since how long the underlying cli commands have been available.
- lukeschlather 8y agoWhile setting up a new laptop I tried to use it and I ended up having to force kill Disk Management after it was "shrinking" for a couple hours. I think the underlying command had succeeded but it just froze. I've never had that kind of experience with (G)Parted, and I think I still trust the Linux tools more...
- iforgotpassword 8y agoIirc it couldn't resize mounted partitions (that was win8), and shrinking always just failed with no meaningful error message.