On 7/29/21 2:15 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
When I've set up dual boot I let Windows resize the drive and create the space needed. My theory is that Windows knows more about what it needs and how to move things around for best effect. You are right.
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))
Yes, and if you disable paging and disable hibernation in Windows, then defrag the drive, Windows will give you much better shrink options. A couple of years ago I had Windows shrink a 500gb drive without doing that on a basically an empty windows installation, and it would only give me half the drive. On my new laptop when I started to set up dual boot on a 1TB drive, I disabled paging and hibernation before using Windows to shrink the drive, and it shrank it down completely to only what Windows was using. So I had around 90% of available space to set up an openSUSE installation. -- George Box: 15.2 | Plasma 5 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: 15.2 | Plasma 5 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: 15.2 | Plasma 5 | Core i5 | 64 | 8GB