Partitions is not shrinking in windows 10

[Tom Elliott]

@george1421 lsblk would definitely help us with seeing how the partitions are defined.

That said, from what I’m gathering of this thread, the issue is specifically only because we were always making partition 1 (unless it was literally the only partition) a fixed size.

So if the windows 10 in this thread is:
465 gb to /dev/sda1
450mb to /dev/sda2
It would not be able to (properly) shrink because we were implicitly making partition 1 on any hdd a fixed partition.

[Tom Elliott]

@Wayne-Workman The fact that the statement is showing it is really in resizable I think the GUI checks (while useful) would not prove any more helpful.

The message the OP is seeing is:
“Not shrinking (fixed size)”.

This message ONLY comes from resizable images.

[Wayne Workman]

@Tom-Elliott said in Partitions is not shrinking in windows 10:

So if the windows 10 in this thread is:
465 gb to /dev/sda1
450mb to /dev/sda2
It would not be able to (properly) shrink because we were implicitly making partition 1 on any hdd a fixed partition.

I’ve never seen a disk laid out like this. But I think the less assumptive the code is, the better.

[Tom Elliott]

@Wayne-Workman I haven’t either, but the OP is installing windows 10 on a legacy system using, more or less, a single partition layout as described earlier. It may have been setup manually rather than letting windows do its think naturally (or there’d likely be at least one more partition).

[Tom Elliott]

@coop90 Have you had a chance to try the wget and new inits to see if capturing the disk is now working for you?

[coop90]

I wont be able to try until Monday.

I am not so familiar with linux, where/how can I run the wget commands?

[Quazz]

@coop90 There’s a program named Terminal (on Ubuntu you can search for this by clicking on the icon top left and typing, assuming default theme). Paste them in there

[coop90]

@Quazz Thanks! I will try on Monday and report back.

[Tom Elliott]

@coop90 https://news.fogproject.org/fog-1-3-4-rc-1/

[coop90]

@Tom-Elliott The resize worked correctly. Thank you for quickly finding the solution!