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-If you a looking for a tool to modify [Partition]~s of a drive that is already in use (and you don't want to lose the data on the partitions), you could use the proprietary (but very good) ~PartitionMagic, or
the [Free] tool parted(8).
If you want to reduce the size of a Windows partition, it is worthwhile running scandisk and defrag from within Windows, and backing up all your data, before resizing the [Partition].
+If you a looking for a tool to modify [Partition]~s of a drive that is already in use (and you don't want to lose the data on the partitions), you could use the proprietary (but very good) ~PartitionMagic, the [Free] tool parted(8) or [GParted | http://gparted.sourceforge.net/] which is available as a live CD which reduces the risks from running an OperatingSystem at the same time as partitioning
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If you want to reduce the size of a Windows partition, it is worthwhile running scandisk and defrag from within Windows, and backing up all your data, before resizing the [Partition].
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A modern distro with a fairly full desktop install will take around 2 to 3 GB of disk space. Allow some room for your /home files, and you will need to free up at least 5GB for the Linux partition.
For a thorough explanation of partitioning, read the [Linux Partition HOWTO | http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/].
