On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Doug B wrote:
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 11:47 am, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Hi all,
Got a quick question about partitioning. I have a laptop that has XP and Linux 9.0. I need to resize the SuSE partition and make it smaller and the XP larger (giving it to my wife). What's the easiest way to do this? Partition Magic or use SuSE?
I've used PM 8.0 and parted.
Parted never failed me. PM 8.0 has on occassion render a partition (and once a whole disk) useless. Maybe it was something I did wrong, I'm no expert, but the the PM cd has worked its way toward the bottom of the seldom used cd stack.
The only file systems I have worked with are ext3 and fat. Unless something has changed, you can shrink an ext3(2) partition, but you can't move the start. PM didn't warn me of that, parted did.
If you use reiserfs, I don't know if you can move the start of the partition or not. I don't think PM 8.0 supported it... maybe a later version?
I've had problems with parted on both NTFS and FAT if the file system is heavily fragmented. At that stage PM works better, while parted just gets stuck at some point. Of course, if you have Windows available a defrag might solve the problem for parted. Bjørn -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: (+47) 555-84894 Stupidity is like a System administrator Fax: (+47) 555-89672 fractal; universal and Math. Department Mobile: (+47) 918 68075 infinitely repetitive. University of Bergen VIP: 81724 Support: system@mi.uib.no Contact: teknisk@mi.uib.no Direct: bjornts@mi.uib.no