Re-partioning

Darren Grant darren.grant at discoverysoft.com
Fri Mar 19 19:21:46 UTC 2004


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.

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(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:
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>>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
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>>
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>parted and qtparted, which is the GUI version using QT libs.
>
>Asked and answered several times. Please make use of the archive.
>
>Alexander
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