Re: [SLUG] Of partitions and re-sizing

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Feb 04 2007 - 16:02:13 EST


On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Chuck Hast wrote:

> I resized a NTFS partition on my laptop. The HD is a 50G HD, I had it
> split 27G for XP and 23G for Linux. I resized the NTFS partition to 17G
> and now want to use the free space for Linux, but I can not access it.

Did you create a new partition for it, or did you resize an existing
partition (or both)?

> I can see it

Using what tool?

> but can do nothing with it. Am I going to have to remove the
> NTFS partition

Almost certainly not.

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