QTparted and NTFS resizing

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 27 August 2006 18:34, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 04:28:20PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > I know this isn't strictly FC, but am running out of harddrive space, and
> > need somewhere to put FC6, when I can psych myself up for another 8days
> > of iso downloads on dialup.
>
> Good grief. Where are you? Perhaps someone here would be kind enough
> to ship you a DVD or some CDs.

Northern France, but I havn't found anywhere over here where I can buy Linux 
CD's. I could get them sent from the UK, but don't have a suitable credit 
card. You just have to be patient with dialup, veeeery patient.
>
> > Knoppix 5.0's QTparted, version-0.4.5-cvs gets the info ok for hdb (the
> > fixed drive), but when trying to get the info for hda (XP in the caddy)
> > the progress bar on the "get info" pane is at 100% and a few seconds
> > later QTparted crashes.
> >
> > Any suggestions as to what is causing QTparted to crash when trying to
> > get info from the NTFS formatted XP drive?
>
> I had problems with Knoppix 4.02, and ended up using a statically
> linked parted. The gory details are at
> http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html.

The only problem on the page is that many of the links I think I need are 
dead.
>
> I've been very pleased with finnix (http://www.finnix.org/) for this
> sort of job.

Right, I got that last night. This is going to be fun doing complex stuff on 
the command line.

> The reason Windows won't move those "unmovable" files it that it may
> be using them by direct access at the LBA level, plus a few other
> reasons that all have to do with Windows. However, if you aren't
> running Windows at the time, that isn't an issue. You dhould be able
> to use the ntfsprogs tools to resize regardless of such clusters.
>
> However, back it up first. ntfsclone (in ntfsprogs) will do the job.

I'm backing up XP with Ghost onto a FAT32 partition on the other drive at the 
mo. I can't say I'm too bothered if it goes down the drain, as I don't use 
it, but it would be usefull to get a bit of practice with resizing NTFS 
partitions.

Any links, or help in using ntfsprogs, and ntfsclone?

Thanks.

Nigel.