Help, linux mint partitioner is weird and I'm afraid to partition

[Fzang]

Why does it do this?

http://i40.tinypic.com/16784r5.png

I'm afraid to partition because I have lots of data on my vista partition

[pastalavista]

It's not so weird. Just click 'manual' and format the way you want. It won't disturb your Vista data if you shrink it's partition. To be extra safe, use Vista's disk management tool (http://vistahelp.blogspot.com/2007/02/resize-partitions-with-vista-disk.html) to shrink the partition and leave the freed space unformatted. Works best (quickest) if you defrag Windows first.

[wolfen69]

just select the first option and you'll be fine. defrag vista first.

[oldos2er]

Why does it do this?

http://i40.tinypic.com/16784r5.png

I'm afraid to partition because I have lots of data on my vista partition

You've clicked 'Guided - Use largest continuous free space,' and the bar at the top is showing you the before and after of the free space. Not really too weird, right?

[Fzang]

As you see, my other partition is already taking up 88% of the harddisk space, so I find it pretty odd that "use free space" should show linux mint having 100% of the harddisk

[mips]

Go "Manual". You should ALWAYS have a backup of your data!!!

[Fzang]

Yeah I just went manual and created an ext3 partition. Done.

[Cenotaph]

its probably just a bug in the visualization of the program, but yeh, manual is the way to go.