Reducing an NTFS partition

[balanga]

I'd like to install FreeBSD on a disk which has Windows installed although the NTFS partition on the disk has 50GB of free space.

Can I reduce the size of the partition whilst trying to install FreeBSD? If so how? Or do I need an external utility like gparted?

 

[wblock@]

sysutils/fusefs-ntfs has ntfsclone, which can resize NTFS filesystems. That might be what gparted uses. I have not tried resizing in-place with it. Even the Windows programs sometimes fail at that.

 

[MorgothV8]

Did that many times in the past. Using Partition Magic. It was in the FreeBSD 4.0-4.5 era.

 

[SirDice]

Not sure if Windows 7 has it but my Windows 8.1 has the option "Shrink Volume" in the Windows Disk Management. So there wouldn't be a need for a third party application. Never used it myself though.

 

[Juanitou]

Not sure if Windows 7 has it but my Windows 8.1 has the option "Shrink Volume" in the Windows Disk Management. So there wouldn't be a need for a third party application. Never used it myself though.

I’ve used it on a Windows Vista laptop to dual-boot PC-BSD and it worked without issues.