On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 20:09 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Alex Aguilar writes: Alex, Please read the responses you got to earlier postings of the same subject (even duel vs. dual :-). https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-July/msg04181.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-July/msg04182.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-July/msg04264.html Cc:ing you directly for this one, but if you're going to post questions, please read responses on-list. > > > by parted) on what partitions that I would like to repartition. I am told ... > > You will probably find that your existing Win XP partition will be > /dev/hda1. Yup. See also msg04264. > But all of this is completely and utterly irrelevant, because parted is not > capable of resizing NTFS partitions. Parted would've helped were you > running Win 95 or 98 on an FAT partition, but your existing Win XP partition > uses NTFS, which parted does not support. > > If you want to resize your existing Win XP partition you will have to use a > commercial partition resizer such as Partition Magic. Nope. Google "ntfsresize". > A better solution for you is to connect a second hard drive, and leave your > existing Win XP partition alone. Linux does not need to be installed on the > first hard drive. That would work also, Phil.
