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