Claude Jones wrote:
On Wed May 23 2007 1:24:39 pm Mark Heslep wrote:
Nat Gross wrote:
woops. According to the table at
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/features.shtml ,
gnu Parted cannot resize ntfs partition.
nat
Right, you must have resizentfs (or ntfsresize?). Have done
it many times. Load the resize binary on a usb stick, boot a
fedora rescue CD ( or a live linux distro?), mount the stick
and then:
1. run resize. Be Careful, Pay attention. Run it in
'pretend' mode once before the real thing. Record the new
filesystem size. You have now resized the filesystem, not the
containing partition, so 2. Run your partition manager.
fdisk, parted, etc. Kill the NTFS partition. Immediately
create a new partition starting at exactly the same place, and
ending at a spot that must absolutely be large enough to
contain the new (smaller) ntfs filesystem.
3. Reboot into Windows (safemode) and run the windows file
system checker (chkfs?)
4. Reboot again w/ your Linux install media and do the linux
thing.
I have to say, this is wrong. It may have once been true. I just
used the gparted distro to do this very thing - see my earlier
post.
ok - you don't claim my steps are wrong but that ntfsresize is not
necessary and one can use gparted instead?
Mark
