Jeff Vian wrote:
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 14:52, Jeffrey W. Stein wrote:
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:56, Mike Wills wrote:
The install for Mandrake actaully allows you to resize NTFS
partitions. I have used it and it seems to work. Of course there is
the usual caution of potenitally destroying the Windows partition if
there is data where you deleted the partition....
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:57:19 -0500, Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does anyone know of a free tool to resize an NTFS partition on a hard
drive in preparation for installing fedora to dual boot?
I have researched fips, parted, partition magic, and others and so far
the only one I can find that will allow resizing of the NTFS partition
is PM (not free).
I am installing Fedora for a customer on her laptop and have previously
not needed to handle NTFS partitions, but now I have this one to deal
with.
TIA
Jeff
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You might want to look at QtParted:
<http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/index.en.html>. I successfully shrank
an NTFS partition from an existing Windows XP Home installation so that
I could dual boot Fedora Core 1 for running MythTV.
I would just make sure that you back up anything vital, just in case.
Good luck,
Jeff
Someone mentioned qtparted previously but AFAICT it can only be used
when Linux is already installed. My situation was that my customer had
a laptop with XP installed and wanted to add linux. A single hard disk
and without physically removing the disk and connecting it to a running
linux system I had no way (at that time) to use the tools suggested.
I wound up using Partition Magic, but really wanted to have a live-CD
bootable system that I could use without having to pay for the extra
tools.
I was not sure if Knoppix contained qtparted and was out of time to
investigate but have since done that and was pleasantly surprised to
find it was there. Now I have another toolbox.
Never too late for an old dog to learn new tricks.
Jeff
We recently downloaded Knoppix and used qtparted on it to resize a NTFS
partition... works great!
