Why not place these files in there own folder? I do this all the time with Ubuntu.
I have a 500GB Seagate external hard drive (part number: 9CZ2A3-501) that I wish to partition to transfer about 6GB of files from my Windows 7 Home Premium laptop to my home built Ubuntu 10.04 desktop. However, whenever I try to shrink the 465GB (formatted) partition down 10GB to 455GB, in the Windows partitioning tool in Disk Management and other third party programs, I always get an error, and I cannot partition the drive. The Windows tool even took away 100GB of storage, which I had to gain back using Partition Wizard Home Edition. Using this program, I was going to try to shrink the volume and format as ext3. I know I have enough room; I am only using about 100-150GB for a system backup, with few other files on it, so I have about 300GB free space when formatted. I get an error (in Partition Wizard), something like 'not enough memory', and in Disk Management, something like not enough space to complete this.' Can you recommend what I could do to partition this drive? Or do you have a better (yet free) idea to transfer these files? Thanks.

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