resizing an exFAT partition on Windows 10 [duplicate]

Is there any way to shrink an exFAT partition?

The windows disk manager has the "Shrink" option greyed out.

The only tool I tested that can actually resize/extend an exFAT partition:

DiskGenius (ex Partition Guru) - v4.9.6.564 tested: Did the job, but not so geniously. It didn't understand my GPT partition layout (whole disk displayed as free). I had to rebuild the GPT with another tool that actually deleted my other linux partition. Be sure your disk manager sees all your partitions.

I got many errors that files had unallocated blocks after resizing, so I decided to reformat as NTFS.

All other "best partition manager" tools I tested at date (08/2018) DON'T SUPPORT exFAT resize/extend:

(Ubuntu) GParted v0.30 tested with exfat-fuse and exfat-utils: Not supported
EaseUS Partition Master v12.10: Not supported
AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard v7.0 tested: Not supported
MiniTool Partition Wizard Free v10.2.3 tested: Not supported (only Move, not Resize/Extend)
Paragon Partition Manager Free for Windows v16.5 Basic tested: Not supported (only Move, not Resize/Extend)
Active@ Partition Manager v6.0 tested: Not supported
Macronit Partition Expert v5.2.0 tested: Not supported
IM-Magic Partition Resizer v3.5.0 tested: Not supported (what a shame for a tool with that name and that announces exFAT support on their homepage!)
Tenorshare Partition Manager v2.0.0.1 tested: Not supported
Microsoft Disk Management v10.0.14393.0 tested: Not supported

I don't think there is any tool that can resize/extend exFAT on Linux at the moment.

Yes.

The tool PartitionGuru Free is able to resize exFAT partitions - even doing a defrag when needed.

Related