I have a 20 GB HD and have XP installed on the first 16 GBs and Fedora installed on the last 4 GBs. I use grub as the boot loader. Is there an opensource linux tool that would let me safely resize those partitions so that they're more like 10 GBs each? Something like partition magic, but that's open source?
Thanks, Darren
Am Fr, den 19.03.2004 schrieb Darren Grant um 19:47:
I have a 20 GB HD and have XP installed on the first 16 GBs and Fedora installed on the last 4 GBs. I use grub as the boot loader. Is there an opensource linux tool that would let me safely resize those partitions so that they're more like 10 GBs each? Something like partition magic, but that's open source?
Thanks, Darren
parted and qtparted, which is the GUI version using QT libs.
Asked and answered several times. Please make use of the archive.
Alexander
Ok thanks, Alexander... I checked out parted but it doesn't seem to be able to handle NTFS partitions ... I should have been more specific about XP being on an NTFS partition. Anyway... that's a good idea to check out the archives... should be able to find the answer there.
<< (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-19077.187 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 15006.027 primary ntfs boot 2 15006.028 15108.002 primary ext3 3 15108.003 18567.312 primary ext3 4 18567.312 19077.187 extended lba 5 18567.343 19077.187 logical linux-swap (parted) resize 1 0.031 10006.027 No Implementation: Support for opening ntfs file systems is not implemented yet.
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Fr, den 19.03.2004 schrieb Darren Grant um 19:47:
I have a 20 GB HD and have XP installed on the first 16 GBs and Fedora installed on the last 4 GBs. I use grub as the boot loader. Is there an opensource linux tool that would let me safely resize those partitions so that they're more like 10 GBs each? Something like partition magic, but that's open source?
Thanks, Darren
parted and qtparted, which is the GUI version using QT libs.
Asked and answered several times. Please make use of the archive.
Alexander
Try BootIt NG. It boots from floppy or cd, you will need win to create it. BootIt is not free but have evaluation version with full functionality, including ntfs support.
Darren Grant wrote:
Ok thanks, Alexander... I checked out parted but it doesn't seem to be able to handle NTFS partitions ... I should have been more specific about XP being on an NTFS partition. Anyway... that's a good idea to check out the archives... should be able to find the answer there.
<< (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-19077.187 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 15006.027 primary ntfs boot 2 15006.028 15108.002 primary ext3 3 15108.003 18567.312 primary ext3 4 18567.312 19077.187 extended lba 5 18567.343 19077.187 logical linux-swap (parted) resize 1 0.031 10006.027 No Implementation: Support for opening ntfs file systems is not implemented yet.
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Fr, den 19.03.2004 schrieb Darren Grant um 19:47:
I have a 20 GB HD and have XP installed on the first 16 GBs and Fedora installed on the last 4 GBs. I use grub as the boot loader. Is there an opensource linux tool that would let me safely resize those partitions so that they're more like 10 GBs each? Something like partition magic, but that's open source?
Thanks, Darren
parted and qtparted, which is the GUI version using QT libs.
Asked and answered several times. Please make use of the archive.
Alexander
Am Fr, den 19.03.2004 schrieb Darren Grant um 20:21:
Ok thanks, Alexander... I checked out parted but it doesn't seem to be able to handle NTFS partitions ... I should have been more specific about XP being on an NTFS partition. Anyway... that's a good idea to check out the archives... should be able to find the answer there.
You are right. From the feature matrix for GNU parted, NTFS is only recognized as a filesystem.
But on http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/features.en.html NTFS is listed as resizeable.
Alexander
So I was able to resize my NTFS partition down to 12 GB from 16 GB... this should free me up enough room to resize my root linux partition so that it's closer 7 GB... or so I thought. I have a GENTOO live CD which I used to boot from. I can't seem to get into a position to resize partition 3 though. I thought I could move my /boot partiton number 2 so that it started right after my XP partition, ie: 12103.660 - 12205.634... and from there I could resize partition 3 so that it started at 12205.635 and continued through to 18567.312. But when I try to move partition 2, I get an error saying something about it not being able to do that with an ext2 yet??? Anyone out there able to help me out... pleaaasee. :) All I really want to do is make my root linux partition bigger...
(parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-19077.187 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 12103.659 primary ntfs boot 2 15006.028 15108.002 primary ext3 3 15108.003 18567.312 primary ext3 4 18567.312 19077.187 extended lba 5 18567.343 19077.187 logical linux-swap
...notice the gap of free space between the end of the XP partition and the beginning of my linux partitions.
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Fr, den 19.03.2004 schrieb Darren Grant um 20:21:
Ok thanks, Alexander... I checked out parted but it doesn't seem to be able to handle NTFS partitions ... I should have been more specific about XP being on an NTFS partition. Anyway... that's a good idea to check out the archives... should be able to find the answer there.
You are right. From the feature matrix for GNU parted, NTFS is only recognized as a filesystem.
But on http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/features.en.html NTFS is listed as resizeable.
Alexander
----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Grant" darren.grant@discoverysoft.com To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 9:25 PM Subject: Re: Re-partioning
So I was able to resize my NTFS partition down to 12 GB from 16 GB... this should free me up enough room to resize my root linux partition so that it's closer 7 GB... or so I thought. I have a GENTOO live CD which I used to boot from. I can't seem to get into a position to resize partition 3 though. I thought I could move my /boot partiton number 2 so that it started right after my XP partition, ie: 12103.660 - 12205.634... and from there I could resize partition 3 so that it started at 12205.635 and continued through to 18567.312. But when I try to move partition 2, I get an error saying something about it not being able to do that with an ext2 yet??? Anyone out there able to help me out... pleaaasee. :) All I really want to do is make my root linux partition bigger...
(parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-19077.187 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 12103.659 primary ntfs boot 2 15006.028 15108.002 primary ext3 3 15108.003 18567.312 primary ext3 4 18567.312 19077.187 extended lba 5 18567.343 19077.187 logical linux-swap
...notice the gap of free space between the end of the XP partition and the beginning of my linux partitions.
You probably don't need partition 2 as a /boot partition anymore if GRUB is in the MBR. I can't remember the details of your original post. You may consider resizing partition 2 to fill all available space. You could then make a /boot on partition 3, and move the stuff from partition 2 into it. Partition 2 would then be empty and you could mount it as /usr or /home, or whatever you need the most. It would take some work, but it seems the easiest solution.
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