On Sunday 27 August 2006 18:34, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 04:28:20PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > I know this isn't strictly FC, but am running out of harddrive space, and > > need somewhere to put FC6, when I can psych myself up for another 8days > > of iso downloads on dialup. > > Good grief. Where are you? Perhaps someone here would be kind enough > to ship you a DVD or some CDs. Northern France, but I havn't found anywhere over here where I can buy Linux CD's. I could get them sent from the UK, but don't have a suitable credit card. You just have to be patient with dialup, veeeery patient. > > > Knoppix 5.0's QTparted, version-0.4.5-cvs gets the info ok for hdb (the > > fixed drive), but when trying to get the info for hda (XP in the caddy) > > the progress bar on the "get info" pane is at 100% and a few seconds > > later QTparted crashes. > > > > Any suggestions as to what is causing QTparted to crash when trying to > > get info from the NTFS formatted XP drive? > > I had problems with Knoppix 4.02, and ended up using a statically > linked parted. The gory details are at > http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html. The only problem on the page is that many of the links I think I need are dead. > > I've been very pleased with finnix (http://www.finnix.org/) for this > sort of job. Right, I got that last night. This is going to be fun doing complex stuff on the command line. > The reason Windows won't move those "unmovable" files it that it may > be using them by direct access at the LBA level, plus a few other > reasons that all have to do with Windows. However, if you aren't > running Windows at the time, that isn't an issue. You dhould be able > to use the ntfsprogs tools to resize regardless of such clusters. > > However, back it up first. ntfsclone (in ntfsprogs) will do the job. I'm backing up XP with Ghost onto a FAT32 partition on the other drive at the mo. I can't say I'm too bothered if it goes down the drain, as I don't use it, but it would be usefull to get a bit of practice with resizing NTFS partitions. Any links, or help in using ntfsprogs, and ntfsclone? Thanks. Nigel.
