I dont know very well parted, but I know for NTFS and linux swap Partition Magic works well. Tazio Timothy R.Butler wrote:
Hi everyone, I wanted to through this question out to you guys... I currently have a dualboot system with Win2k and SuSE. As it stands, Windows taked 10 gigs of space, and Linux gets 6 (this is because, when I partitioned the drive, Windows was still my primary desktop OS). So, now I would like to shrink the NTFS drive so that I can give Linux more room (and I admit, install Windows XP Beta too). So, here are my questions:
1.) Is there any such thing as a loss-less drive resizer for NTFS partitions? I'm thinking that GNU parted is what I need to look into, but that's just a shot in the dark.
2.) What is the best way to then go about filling some of the newly created space with my main Linux (ReiserFS) partition?
3.) Finally, my ReiserFS partition is on one side of the drive, my NTFS partition is on the other, with my Linux swap partition inbetween. So, if I want to expand my ReiserFS partition, I will need to destroy and recreate my swap partition. Can anyone give me a tip on how to recreate a swap partition (does it need any formatting, or do I just need to use fdisk and set the id of the new partition to "Linux Swap")?
Thanks, Tim