what about vista ntfs partitions if someone is duel booting? On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Tyler Smith wrote: > > > > > On 2008-02-22, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >> Are you aware that you can resize your partitions non destructively > > using > > >> something like qtparted? First backup all your data before you do > > >> anything like this. This is what I did when I found out that my RAM > > size > > >> is larger than my swap partition. > > >> > > > > > > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the options for resizing > > > partitions without losing data is pretty limited. I recently went > > > through a round of resizing, and while I could move swap into adjacent > > > unused space, I could only alter the end of a data partition. i.e., I > > > could make an existing partition bigger or smaller, but I could not > > > move it. > > > > > > > I do not know. It has been some time I did this. It worked at that time > > and > > I did not bother to dig deeply into it. May be other people on the list > > know it better. > > > > > ps - your message was flagged follow-up-to gmane.linux.debian.user, > > > which was rejected by slrn as an invalid newsgroup. I don't know if > > > this is a problem at my end or your end... > > > > gmane.linux.debian.user is the news group's name. I am accessing d-u via > > gmane's news server. Sorry to say, but I think the problem is at your > > end. > > But feel free to correct me if I am wrong. > > > > raju > > -- > > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ > > http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > my advice would be to get gparted.. i've resized hundreds of partitions > of different fs types and not had any lost files, excepting power failure, > me kicking the box out of boredom etc... >
