using parted with xp ntfs

[Ken Scott]

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 04:45, jim wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Manuel
> Aróstegui Ramirez
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 4:15 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: using parted with xp ntfs
> 
> 
>  --- jim <j_marvin at localnet.com> escribió: > hi-
> 
> >>Maybe it will be more secure to your data to resize
> >>your XP partition with Partition Magic for example in
> >>your Windows
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> 
> =====
> --
> 
> Manuel Aróstegui Linux user 200896
> Madrid, TE QUIERO.
> 
> yes.  I thought about that.  I will either buy that software
> or I could purchase another linux version with a utility like
> parted built in so I didn’t have to get partition magic.
> I have read about a ntfs lawsuit on a couple of posts and I am 
> wondering if it has anything to do with parted not working
> or it works and it is just me not using it right.
> 
> thanks,
> marvin
>   
> 
One data point of positive experience.  I used the NTFS resizing utility
(not parted, I believe it was Cfdisk or something like that) in the
Live-CD Knoppix distribution to successfully resize my laptop NTFS Win
XP partition so I could load linux on the last 20 GB.  It was a new PC
and I did a scandisk and defrag prior to the attempt at resize. Good
Luck.

Ken