Kinda similar to the other thread by Jose Sanchez, I have a dual-boot WinXP/Suse 9.0 system, and I need to take hdd space from the Windows side and give it to Linux. I found a program named ntfsresize that could reduce the NTFS partition, but I think it's intended for systems where Windows is using all the disk space in one big partition and the user wants to reduce it, then create Linux partitions. QTParted can probably do some of this, but it doesn't look like it can resize Ext2/Ext3 partitions. I'm not sure if that's even what my Linux install is using, it could be ReiserFS - how can I find out? (I'm new to Linux, can ya tell...) Worst case I can always pick up a copy of Partition Magic, install that under Windows, and do my resizing, but I'd rather boot from a live CD like Knoppix and use a Linux tool for this. Thanks, Dan
On Wednesday 24 Mar 2004 23:17 pm, Dan Abernathy wrote:
I'm not sure if that's even what my Linux install is using, it could be ReiserFS - how can I find out?
If you issue the 'mount' command with no options or parameters it'll tell you what is mounted where, and what filesystem it's using. HTH Dylan -- "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" -Big Helmet
Hi, when I did that my first time I used partition magic, and everything went
ok. However, last week a friend did the same and his windows partition got
damage. So be careful, specially if you don't have backups.
Jose
Quoting Dan Abernathy
Kinda similar to the other thread by Jose Sanchez, I have a dual-boot WinXP/Suse 9.0 system, and I need to take hdd space from the Windows side and give it to Linux.
I found a program named ntfsresize that could reduce the NTFS partition, but I think it's intended for systems where Windows is using all the disk space in one big partition and the user wants to reduce it, then create Linux partitions.
QTParted can probably do some of this, but it doesn't look like it can resize Ext2/Ext3 partitions. I'm not sure if that's even what my Linux install is using, it could be ReiserFS - how can I find out? (I'm new to Linux, can ya tell...)
Worst case I can always pick up a copy of Partition Magic, install that under Windows, and do my resizing, but I'd rather boot from a live CD like Knoppix and use a Linux tool for this.
Thanks,
Dan
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 05:17:51PM -0600, Dan Abernathy wrote:
I have a dual-boot WinXP/Suse 9.0 system, and I need to take hdd space from the Windows side and give it to Linux.
There's some good information about dealing with NTFS when installing Linux at http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Filesystems/ntfs.html. There are links from there to multiple partition resizing/moving utilities. I recently needed to resize a fairly large (180GB) NTFS partition and was unable to do it with Partition Magic 5 (which reported that it didn't have enough memory; this machine had 1GB RAM). I ended up successfully using the trial version of BootIt Next Gen, as described in the document referenced above.
QTParted can probably do some of this,
IIRC, QTParted requires that your NTFS partition be defragmented, and in my case, the Windows 2000 deframentation utility did not do so satisfactorily (maybe related to large swap file that was not moved?).
but it doesn't look like [QTParted] can resize Ext2/Ext3 partitions.
It can. See http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/features.en.html.
I'm not sure if that's even what my Linux install is using, it could be ReiserFS - how can I find out?
This depends on whether your installer has created the filesystem yet or not. You should probably read the docs for your distribution. SuSE defaults to ReiserFS these days.
Worst case I can always pick up a copy of Partition Magic, install that under Windows, and do my resizing,
Before you go performing open-heart surgery on your filesystem under Windows (I shudder at the thought), borrow a Windows machine and have Partition Magic create rescue floppies for you. You can (at least back with version 5 you could) boot from these and have full PM functionality. I don't know why anyone would want to install Partition Magic under Windows. Nothing it does needs to be performed on a live filesystem. -- Phil Mocek
Hi Dan, I have tried BooitNG, as well at Partition Magic. The one I like best is Acronis Partition Expert. Its a bit less expensive than PM, and I've had not problems with it, on several XP machines. After install, you can launch it from the hard drive, or from a boot CD you will make on install. If you launch from windows, the program only allows you to select your changes, and does not actually commit the changes until you say commit and let it reboot into dos. After you free up some space, let Suse format it with Suse partitioner. Good luck. Jim Flanagan On Wednesday 24 March 2004 17:17, Dan Abernathy wrote:
Kinda similar to the other thread by Jose Sanchez, I have a dual-boot WinXP/Suse 9.0 system, and I need to take hdd space from the Windows side and give it to Linux.
I found a program named ntfsresize that could reduce the NTFS partition, but I think it's intended for systems where Windows is using all the disk space in one big partition and the user wants to reduce it, then create Linux partitions.
QTParted can probably do some of this, but it doesn't look like it can resize Ext2/Ext3 partitions. I'm not sure if that's even what my Linux install is using, it could be ReiserFS - how can I find out? (I'm new to Linux, can ya tell...)
Worst case I can always pick up a copy of Partition Magic, install that under Windows, and do my resizing, but I'd rather boot from a live CD like Knoppix and use a Linux tool for this.
Thanks,
Dan
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