Re: Resizing NTFS partition to make room for FC10

[Tod Thomas <fr33zone gmail com>]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Tod Thomas wrote:
>   
> > Thanks.  I thought that recreating the partition using fdisk would have
> > accomplished the same thing - no?  If not what does the fdisk process I
> > followed
> > do or not do?
> >
> >
> > Tod
> >
> >     
> It will if you create a new partition table that reflects the new
> disk size, and do not copy the mbr from the larger disk. You will
> need to re-install the Windows boot loader to the mbr of the new
> drive, or install the Grub boot loader there, and use it to select
> Windows or Linux.
>
> Mikkel
>   
Ok, I think I understand:

/dev/hda - spare 80GB drive
/dev/hdb - old 150GB xp drive (primary partition ntfsresized to 20GB)

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda

fdisk /dev/hda
- create new primary partition(hda1), bootable, type 7 (NTFS)
- this then creates the windows MBR?

dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/hda1 bs=10000000 count=2000
 - copies resized xp partition to new drive

Reboot to new drive and all is well.  Defragging is factored in 
somewhere prior to this operation.  I think upon reboot this will 
trigger xp to perform a chkdisk.
Does this make sense?


- Tod