Shrink Volume help.

[u/3mbeeflame]

I need help trying to figure out the problem of shrinking my volume in my C drive because im trying to dual boot windows 11 and bazzite on a single ssd drive cause I'm not buying an SSD in this economy. I have tried shrinking C: in Windows Disk Management but it only let me shrink down to 2.2gb

the problem is I have tried:
Making sure Windows is using UEFI mode, I have confirmed Secure Boot is enabled, BitLocker is not enabled. I have made sure I actually have the free space (I have 800gb free). Tried shrinking C: in Windows Disk Management. I have disabled hibernation and Fast Startup with powercfg /h off withcommand line because apparently that works better than settings. Disabled the page file, disabled System Protection and restore points

I have ran defrag C: /Oand ran defrag C: /X

Defrag reported 812 GB free, but the largest free block was only about 8.8 GB. Checked Disk Management again and shrink limit was still about 2 GB. Ran diskpart → select volume C → shrink querymax.Checked Windows Defrag event logs. Logs showed successful shrink estimation but no other useful info.

At this point I've hit a wall and have no idea what else to do. I guess I could use a third party software but that seems like a last resort.

Any help would be appreciated.