Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1390 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

JayLinux wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:14 PM, John Heinen<hensandpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
>    
> > On the hard drive we have as follows according to qt parted
> > partition             size           used    space start  end       recovery
> > 1 /dev/sda1 ntfs   15.54 gb   N/A     0.03 mb     15.54 gb recovery
> > 2 /dev/sda2 nfts 115.55 gb  37 gb  15.54gb  13108. gb   partittion
> >
> > the rest of the hard drive is filled with opensuse, linux mint etc.
> > Partittion 1 and 2 is windows vista but won't open probably on account off
> > sda1 is full,  in other words; vista cannot operate unless it has free space
> > in  da1 to backup
> >
> > Is there a way with "Qt parted"  to decrease /dev/sda2  and increase the
> > backup sda1 by the same in order for vista to backup
> >
> > I do understand that we should not discuss windows on the forum but I do
> > need windows yet for wubi,  taxes, and bibel programs, (some combo)  John H
> > --
> >      
> Do not do any partition operations on mounted file system(s), I assume
> you are using ntfs-3g to mount those partitions in Linux.
>
> I have done similar partition re-sizing successfully without data
> loss, using gparted through a boot CD, preferring Parted Magic
> (http://partedmagic.com/), however it is highly recommended to make a
> partition /essential file/folder backup before proceeding.
>
>    
Quite so.  I'm in the middle of moving my notebook system to a larger 
hard drive.  I've used dd to make image files of the various partitions 
and also the entire hard drive.  I also separately copied the contents 
of /home and the Windows "My Documents" folder just in case...

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