Jason White via luv-main wrote:
While installing Linux recently, I found that Windows 10 would only shrink the NTFS partition to approximately half of its previous size. I read claims via a web search for information on this subject that there are metadata in the middle of an NTFS partition, and Microsoft's tools won't reduce the size of the file system beyond this point. I'm not sure how accurate this is, although it's consistent with the observed results.
To be clear are you claiming this is an intrinsic limitation of NTFS partitions or just the tools that MS provides ? MS tools for partition management eg "Computer Management-Storage-Disk Management" have always lagged well behind 3rd party tools; eg Partition Guru http://www.eassos.com ; Partition Magic https://www.partitionwizard.com/ regards Rohan McLeod