Hello John,
On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:07:08 -0700 John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 7/19/2014 2:55 PM, wwp wrote:
nor shrink the NTFS partition in order to install the CentOS6 system on disk.
I strongly dislike shrinking file systems in place, and prefer to backup the whole FS, repartition the disk, then restore the FS to the new smaller partition. for Windows NTFS systems, I usually do this with Acronis True Image Home.
but, I really dislike multibooting different OS's, its just a general pain. there's all sorts of gotchas, for example: do NOT let the windows system hibernate instead of fully shut down if you're going to touch NTFS with another OS or you'll likely get some hellacious file system corruptions.
Well, to my (pretty long) experience in computers (though I'm still asking for advice), I quite never met any of the points you're mentioning, with dual boots and shrinking system FS's. Anyhow, accepting your experience and thanking you for sharing it, I don't find in you reply any answer to my question ;-).
Regards,