Tom Nielsen wrote:
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?
Have not used parted but have used PM and Acronis PE and much prefer the latter. All Acronis products are very well done. I use their Image Server almost daily. Beats Ghost all to heck, perfectly images anything, windows, *NIX, mac perfectly, and you never have to boot into Dos. Have even developed backup strategies with it to backup servers offsite to an image 1/3 the size at 10 times the speed of windoze native backup. Problem open files like SQL databases are also not a problem. Of course, if it is a busy database, I suppose you could lose a transaction since it is not touted as a database backup, but I have never had a problem. Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, CNE, MCSE+I, CCDA Information Security Engineer DP Solutions ----------------------------- If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. -- former White House cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke