On Friday 23 July 2004 07:49 am, wchast@utilpart.com wrote:
>
> Folks,
> I have the Novel SuSE DVD's. I would like to install it on my (company's)
> laptop which has a 40G Hd on it. I was going to use the usual tool (FIPS)
> but remembered something about NTFS, and of course re-rtfm and saw that
> FIPS is for fat only. I saw several "solutions" out there but all that I
> saw had what looked like flashing red letters on them about re-sizing
> NTFS partitions. I want to whack off about 15G for Linux, you guys have
> any recommendations?
>
> Indeed, is there one on the Novel DVD's? if so I am set and will proceed.
>
>
> Chuck Hast
You can use ntfsresize to do this. I have used it many times without problems.
Just MAKE SURE the the NTFS partition is defragmented completely before using
it.
Get the newist version. You can find some info here:
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
SystemRescueCD with QtParted works really well and is great to have in your
toolbox.
--Rob
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked
Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages
posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 13:24:51 EDT