On Tuesday 20 January 2004 8:52 am, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:

On Tuesday 20 January 2004 14:24, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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Is GNU Parted that comes with the SuSE 9.0 installer sufficient to safely resize a Windows XP NTFS partition?

Difficult to say. I haven't done any scientific field work, but my own experience (with Win2000 and ME) is that it works.

Are there any Linux partitioning tools that can also move partitions, as Partition Magic does? (Assuming the destination space is available, of course.) And if not, are there ways to do it using ordinary Linux tools? Yes, I know you can use dd in theory, but I don't know if it can be trusted if there's the slightest subtle difference between the source and target partitions. Paul Abrahams

I've been using a combination of tools.... Red Hat has an excellent version of FDisk which is easy to use. Some versions of Linux refuse to install into the partitions left by other versions so I go in with FDisk and remove them. Installing Mandrake I found that on a disk with a single 100% Windows partition it has a built in partition manager that allowed me to resize the Windows partition to my specifications, and then installed it's own partitions into the empty space without disrupting the Windows installation a bit. I don't know if SUSI's YAST installer includes this provision as I already had the disk split when installing SUSI. Personally I like working with just plain old Fdisk ..... I've used versions of Fdisk since the DOS days and trust it. H.W. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 1/20/04 at 5:06 PM darryl penny wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:24:57 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote

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In the past, I have maintained versions of Partition Magic for use in installfests. I'm a bit leary on trying parted on participants machines without some experience.

Is GNU Parted that comes with the SuSE 9.0 installer sufficient to safely resize a Windows XP NTFS partition?

Jerry, I have no experience using SuSE to repartition. However, if you have a copy of Knoppix, it worked like this for me:

Reboot with Knoppix CD - it loads into RAM, mounting all partitions ro. Start a konsole, type su - no passwd needed :) Type qtparted and it's gui will fire up, displaying your drive/s Repartitioning is a breeze with this app. It's a Partition Magic clone written in C++ using the QT GUI Toolkit. Get this GNU software at:

http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/

I've used it more than once on laptops and desktops, never had a problem. !!Important!! - do a defrag on your 'other' OS 1st.

HTH Darryl

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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:50:23 +0200 "darryl penny" wrote:

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It came pre-installed with XP, so I loaded up Knoppix and used Qparted to repartition, making space for SuSE and a shared Fat32 part. Is there any difference between Qparted on Knoppix 3.3 and SuSE's GNU Parted.

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