Spake Chad Perrin on Sunday, August 01, 2004 at 01:25AM -0400:
>
> I have a dual-boot system with a Windows 95 partition and a Slackware
> partition (kernel 2.0.29). What I want to do is wipe the 95 partition,
> shrink it to about half its current size, and add the remainder to the
> Slackware partition. I want to do this without losing any data from the
> Slack partition (obviously). I know one can resize Windows partitions
> (after a defrag, at least) without data loss, but I don't think I've ever
> heard of anyone doing this with a Linux partition. I would imagine it can
> be done, though.
>
> What I've done so far is removed Windows from the lilo.conf so that it's
> not in the boot options. Any suggestions on where I should start? Is
> there some partition management tool that is ideal for this job whose
> manpage I could use to muddle through the necessaries?
>
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/
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