resize NTFS partition questions.

[John Thompson]

Jeffrey W. Stein wrote:

>>On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:57:19 -0500, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone know of a free tool to resize an NTFS partition on a hard
>>>drive in preparation for installing fedora to dual boot?
>>>
>>>I have researched fips, parted, partition magic, and others and so far
>>>the only one I can find that will allow resizing of the NTFS partition
>>>is PM (not free).
>>>
>>>I am installing Fedora for a customer on her laptop and have previously
>>>not needed to handle NTFS partitions, but now I have this one to deal
>>>with.

> You might want to look at QtParted:
> <http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/index.en.html>. I successfully shrank
> an NTFS partition from an existing Windows XP Home installation so that
> I could dual boot Fedora Core 1 for running MythTV. 


QTParted is included with SystemRescueCD (http://www.sysresccd.org/) if 
you'd like a handy, self-contained, bootable CD from which to run QTParted.

> I would just make sure that you back up anything vital, just in case.

Absolutely...


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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)