Am Mo, den 27.12.2004 schrieb Gustavo Seabra um 14:44: > In this case, it's still a good idea to defragment & backup it first. I > had problems trying to use qtparted to resize/repartition a ntfs > partition. Even after defrag, there remained some data in the end of the > disk that didn't allow qtparted to resize it appropriately. In the end, > I just reformatted the whole thing. > Gustavo Seabra - Graduate Student Gustavo, this is a valid and very true point, in any case fiddling around with existing partitions. _Always have a current and working full backup if moving, resizing or even converting partitions and having data you want to keep_! Not only true for Linux applications like (qt)parted, but commercial tools like Partition Magic do popup such a warning for having a backup too. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp Serendipity 14:51:07 up 4 days, 16:35, load average: 0.26, 0.24, 0.26
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