On Wednesday 08 September 2004 15:28, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > System is Debian based Knoppix-3.6 running kernel-2.6.7 > > Is there a utility to reduce the size or shrink an NTFS > partition. It is a 30Gb disk with about 8Gb of data (at > least that is what du -sk tells after mounting it). > > Thanks in advance, > -ishwar
Well, it's not the Debian way, but I've used the Mandrake 10 installer to do this. Just pretend you're going to install, shrink the partition, and after writing the changes, reboot without continuing the install. Note that the program won't let you shrink the partition beyond the last file on the system. I.e., if a file resides at the end of the disk, you'll have to move it before resizing the partition. Just because most of a partition is unused doesn't mean all the data is at the front of the disk. Alternately, a pay for program called partition magic can do it. Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
