On 4/19/2013 2:23 PM, MichaelJF wrote:
> "Cousin Ricky" <rickysttATyahooDOTcom> wrote:
>> "MichaelJF" <mi-### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
>>>   With the partitioning my experience so far is that it is
>>> better to have Windows do it itself. Usually this works.
>>
>> This was not possible for me.  Windows had conveniently placed some immovable
>> blocks near the far end of the disk, and adamantly refused to shrink the
>> partition.
>>
> Yes, Microsoft tries to do that, but I never experiecened this at that scale. As
> I mentioned my last Suse Installation was some years ago. I experienced that
> Windows allowed for only a part of the hard drive for other systems due to this
> block issue and occupied much more than was needed to run Windows, but it was
> quiet enough to run Suse (if I remember right, windows "needed" a third of a
> Terabyte-harddrive, so 2/3 were free for Linux). May be they have changed this
> policy.
>
> One of the reasons why I didn't tried Suse again with my last private machine
> was that especially the problem of handedness wasn't really implented with Suse.
> One can chance the mouse from right to left within the kde but not all programs
> (even kde-programs) uses this settings. So you have a GUI which is left handed
> but some programs (e.g. the file manager) are still right handed, ignoring the
> kde settings completelly. I experienced this again just yesterday with an older
> nachine I have Suse (11.3) running. But since I was trained to be right handed
> during my youth and experienced later that I was left handed originally, I can
> cope with this but it is not convenient.
>
> Best regards,
> Michael
>
>
It should probably be clear that Windows a) locks certain files, so you 
can't move them, **while it is running**, but b) it doesn't actually 
care if they are in those places, assuming you can find some way to move 
them later, and c) this is likely some sort of quirk in how it installs, 
where those files are "low priority, since they load once", allowing for 
a small improvement in the OS speed, by leaving the "faster" parts of 
the drive free, for all the OS components that get loaded/unloaded, 
swapped, and your own programs, etc.

The consequence is that Windows itself won't let you fix the problem, 
and it makes resizing the partition effectively impossible, unless your 
OS and application can "move" the files first, but.. its not necessarily 
intended as a means to screw up multi-boot systems. Its just that, if 
you don't prepare for that *before* installing it, they don't give a 
shit that it becomes complicated for anyone trying to do so.

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