**Kim** @kimdanes · Jun 12, 2018, 17:30

**Kim** @kimdanes · Jun 12, 2018, 17:30

Kim @kimdanes

Trying to get windows 7 to shrink the C: drive is like

Idk it's really hard though

It's been "working" on it for... 2 hours

**Ari Myr** @arisunz · Jun 12, 2018, 17:31

**Ari Myr** @arisunz · Jun 12, 2018, 17:31

@kimdanes I hope it's not a FAT volume

'cuz I've been there and it's hell

**Kim** @kimdanes · Jun 12, 2018, 17:32

**Kim** @kimdanes · Jun 12, 2018, 17:32

@arisunz nah it's ntfs. Tbh I'm not sure why fat would take a long time?

**Ari Myr** @arisunz · Jun 12, 2018, 17:34

**Ari Myr** @arisunz · Jun 12, 2018, 17:34

@kimdanes maybe it was just me, but I tried it once with gparted and it took all night for a 300~ Gb

And I had to repair the boot sector afterwards because I could not see the partition at all from Windows

In hindsight I probably fucked something else myself because I had little to no idea of what I was doing

**jorty (deprecated aspect)** @jordyd · 2018-06-12T17:54:51Z

jorty (deprecated aspect) @jordyd

@arisunz @kimdanes
Speculation: since FAT and NTFS are prone to fragmentation, on resizing the filesystem it has to be defragmented to make room for data that was previously at the far end of the allocated space

Jun 12, 2018, 17:54 · Amaroq · 0 · 2

**Kim** @kimdanes · Jun 12, 2018, 19:13

**Kim** @kimdanes · Jun 12, 2018, 19:13

@jordyd @arisunz I find it hilarious that MS didn't fix that for NTFS