I'd make a backup first. On one occasion I resized an NTFS partition with Partition Magic, and the NTFS partition was unusable afterward. Generally PM works very well, though.
----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Reid billreid@shaw.ca Date: Monday, April 26, 2004 1:32 pm Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Resizing XP NTFS partitions
I have used parted successfully. I think I have used it on NTFS file system but it does say it supports it.
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/
Glen Ditchfield wrote:
I have a Windows XP machine, and I want to add SuSE 9.0. I want
to cut the
existing 39GB NTFS partition in half to make room. SuSE's
installer tries,
but brings up a dialog box saying that due to limitations of the
software,
the file system can only be shrunk by up to 3584 MB, and advises
me to run a
disk defragmentation program under Windows to move the used
blocks toward the
start of the partition. If I use the installer CD in rescue
mode and try
ntfsresize, it comes up with the same numbers.
The Windows XP defragmenter shows the last half of the partition
as being
free. If I run it repeatedly, it claims to be compacting the
same set of
files over and over, but SuSE's "3584MB" number doesn't change.
Some web searching turns up suggestions that XP's NTFS is
different from
earlier NTFS. Can ntfsresize really shrink the partition by
more than
3584MB?
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