NTFS Repatition during install

Phil Schaffner P.R.Schaffner at IEEE.org
Sat Jul 9 12:57:03 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 12:21 +0200, David Becker wrote:
> Does the fedora installer come with a facility to repartition/resize
> an NTFS parition keeping the data on an existing partition intact?

No.

> 
> A friend of mine recently purchased a laptop with no Windows
> install CD, and he'd like to get linux installed alongside without
> having to remove (and reinstall) windows.
> 
> I already see there's a utility ntfsresize:
> (http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html)
> 
> I was just wondering whether such a facility is already available
> on the Fedora install CDs.

Could try a Knoppix CD to fix the problem.  See
http://www.copyleft.co.nz/install-prnt.html

and/or Google "ntfsresize knoppix" and/or "ntfsresize fc4" for more.

Phil





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