4.1 Partition Resizing
In order to accommodate Fedora on a disk drive that already contains a Windows installation, the first step involves shrinking the Windows partition to make some room. The recommended course of action is to use the Windows Disk Management interface to reduce the size of the partition before attempting to install Fedora 31.
To access Disk Management on Windows 10, right-click on the Start menu and select Disk Management from the resulting menu as highlighted in Figure 4-1:
Figure 4-1
Once loaded, the Disk Management tool will display a graphical representation of the disk drives detected on the system:
Figure 4-2
Right-click on the partition you wish to reduce in size and select Shrink Volume... from the popup menu. The tool will calculate the maximum amount by which the volume size can be reduced without data loss (a process that can take several minutes depending on the overall size of the partition). Once this analysis is complete, a...
