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Steve, Take a look at the programs included with SuSE 8.2 discs. I don't know how reliable these are nor how well they work, but I do believe they work. Also, it seems there were some NTFS programs included with Mandrake. The SuSE programs are "ntfsprogs", if you do a search in YaST2. There are 4 programs included, mkntfs, ntfsundelete, ntfsresize & ntfslabel.
Pat ======================== On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:22 am, Damian O'Hara wrote: Sorry Pat but I have to agree with Steve.
My own experience trying to dual-boot an already installed winbox shows that yast refuses to resize the NTFS partition.
Maybe the contrib tools work - maybe not.
The issue here though is that we're asking newbies to get straight into some low level tweaking because yast couldn't do it.
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Damian, No argument that I would like to see YaST2 be able to do it from the install too. Since it doesn't presently, having the tools available makes it better than when we didn't have anything to work on ntfs partitions. Since presently the only other alternative is to purchase an $80 program to do this, I think SuSE's answer is a good, inexpensive solution, don't you? Newbie or not, to alter ntfs partitions requires an additional program to resize. Wouldn't you rather have some tools provided to you by the distribution rather than fork out so much money to only use once? I think that is the big point, are there Linux tools available to do this job. Pat -- --- KMail v1.5.3-3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...