New Dell Inspiron 9400: From Vista to Fedora/Vista.

[Mark Heslep]

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.

Mark