Hi- Need info on partition tool

Mike Burger mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Thu Nov 9 12:45:36 UTC 2006


Yogi can't use fdisk for what he wants to do...he's trying to resize his
existing NTFS partition, to make it smaller, so that he can install Linux
on the system without losing the data he's already got.

> you can aslo use "fdisk", command to make a new partition..Its very
> effective and handy..
> man fdisk to more info..
>
> With regards
> Nirav
>
>
> On 11/7/06, Russell Harrison <rtlm10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Gparted even has a live cd you can download to do this.  Even though the
>> latest version claims that you don't even have to de-fragment the NTFS
>> partition before you resize I'd still recommend doing so just to be
>> safe.
>>
>> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> On 11/7/06, Yogi pn <yougander at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all, Currently i have a system with 1 single drive configured with
>> NTFS
>> > partition, 20GB free space available. I want to create an additional
>> > partition with this free space for Linux. Please let me know the best
>> tool
>> > for partitioning without losing data on the existing drive. TIA
>> >
>> > Best Regards,
>> > Yogi
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