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→Manually Partitioning the Disk for Windows/Fedora
Linux includes a powerful disk partitioning tool called ''GParted'' which will need to be installed before it can be used in the live system. To perform the installation, select the ''System->Administration->Add Remove Software'' menu option and wait for the application to start and populate the package list. Enter ''GParted'' into the text field, click ''Find'' and wait for the package to appear in the list. Click the check box next to the package name and initiate the installation.
Once installed, to launch ''GParted'' click on the ''Applications'' desktop menu and from the ''System Tools'' sub-menu, select ''GParted''. Once running, the ''GParted'' main screem screen will appear displaying a graphical representation of the disk partition layout:
The above ''GParted'' session shows a Windows NTFS formatted partition which is taking up most of the available disk space. In order to make space for a Fedora Linux installation the next step is to resize the Windows NTFS partition. The objective is to reduce the size of the Windows partition from the current size of approximately 15Gb 15GB to 8Gb8GB. This will create 7Gb 7GB of unused space for the Fedora installation. Select the NTFS partition in the ''GParted'' window and click on the ''Resize/Move'' toolbar button to invoke the ''Resize/Move'' dialog:
