"Michael K O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to change the partition size on my laptop. It has one drive > with partitions for linux and one for windows 2000 (ntfs). I've had > success in the past with Partition Magic, but that was with one > drive with two MS partitions (ntfs and fat). > > I just wanted to hear about any success or horror stories using > Partition Magic (or something else) to repartion a drive with ext2 > and ntfs on it.
Have you looked into the Linux tools, notably ntfsresize (in the ntfstools package) and parted? In principle these should be able to do what you want; the various rescue CD images (a bunch have come up in the past week or two here) generally have these programs on them as well. When I got this laptop, I had trouble resizing the (Windows XP) NTFS partition because there were files that couldn't be moved towards the end of the partition. Since it was brand new, I actually dealt by nuking the existing partition scheme and running the install tool again on the partitioned machine. This won't work so well if you actually have data to save, though. <flame> Partition Magic is an evil, evil program. It's somewhat expensive for home-user software that you'll probably want to use exactly once. And the last time I looked at its license, you were allowed to only use it on one machine, anywhere, ever, without paying again. I think the usual arguments for free software apply even more here than for stuff that you're going to use every day (or is a principal source of distraction). </flame> -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
