Look up "Boot-It NG" or "Boot-It Next Generation" on Google. Excellent
shareware repartitioner that works from a single bootable floppy disk. Does
lossless resizing of partitions, including NTFS.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chad Perrin [mailto:perrin@apotheon.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:26 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: [SLUG] resizing partitions
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?
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