James Knott said the following on 03/01/2010 04:32 PM:
using gparted
What's your problem?
I tried with the parted included with the System Rescue CD and it didn't want to work with NTFS. The parted in OpenSUSE will work with it, but it sees the full size of the partition I created, not the size of the actual usable area, as copied from the old disk. The Yast Partitioner also sees the full partition size, not actual size.
Yes. That's right. These are PARTITION Editors. Of course they see the full size of the partition. I you want to shrink a partition with a file system on it you need to shrink the file system first. Do those tools do that? Possibly not. When I resize a LVM "partition" I use resize2fs or resize_reiserfs. Before lvreduce or after lvextend. No doubt there is a similar tool for NTFS. Not knowing much about Windows I can't help you there. Other here will :-) I suspect you'll want to defragment the NTFS first. Not that you need to do that first with the Linux file systems :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org