Re: Risize NTFS Partition

[Chris <ithinkiam@xxxxxxxxx>]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [Stephen Chadfield] on Friday 16 September 2005 13:41 \__
>
>
> > Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > __/ [Stephen Chadfield] on Friday 16 September 2005 12:17 \__
> > >
> > > > There are free programs which can safely resize XP NTFS partitions:
> > > >
> > > >  http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
> > >
> > > Interesting. I'd love to use it in order to shove a second parition onto
> > > some computers (parents come to mind). I am not too fond of the URL
> > > though... linux.rulez... sounds like the hard-drive might end up
> > > deep.fr1ed.
> >
> > I have succesfully used the rescue CD linked by that page to
> > non-destructively resize XP partitions.
>
>
> It seems as if the bare-bone tool actually gets used very extensively by
> installers, in which case the entire process is greatly simplified. For
> some reason, I wasn't able to do this when trying Ubuntu and RedHat. I was
> assuming that Linux must be installed before Windows, but I guess it was
> silly altogether.

Yes (qt)parted is very nice front-end for partitioning hard disks prior 
to installation of linux. AFAIK it's present on most live CDs. I use 
Mepis and it's certainly there. It uses ntfsresize to modify NTFS 
partitions.

> I wonder what impact WinFS will have on all of that. It is intended to sit
> on top of NTFS.

I wouldn't worry too much about it yet. It won't even be around when 
Vista is launched. Think two years from now before it'll be in common 
usage. Having said that FAT is still being used for many Windows 
installs, so it may be a long time before WinFS gets accepted. Before 
then there'll be lots of Windows boxes that will need upgrading to Linux >-D