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. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast