That is, while there are partition resizing applications, some folk skip backups and discover that while it works most of the time, there is that one time...
In the past I've used GPARTED to do this. Free, only a little challenging.
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Hey I have an windows partition and a linux partition on my hd. My windows partition is quickly running out of room while I still have plenty of space on the linux one. Is there and easy, free, and safe way to re-size the partitions to increase the size windows partition?

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