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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].
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/].
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+A modern Linux distribution such as [Ubuntu] Hoary or [Mandriva] should let you do partition resizing in the installer.
You may also want to read a [mini howto on swap | http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/swap-mini-howto.txt] someone wrote.
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