Hi Damian. Hi Pat. Just to sum up. Since Microsoft abandoned vfat, SuSE has taken a backward leap for newbies. It's no longer a case of putting in cd1, grabbing a cool beer and coming back with everything in place. We really need the SuSE guys to get us back to where we were installing and shrinking an ntfs partition. Not everyone on this list has the time or money to use partition magic (it takes 8 hours) and the tools provided in 8.2 really are not reliable. XP and 2000 users are reluctant to try SuSE once more because of this. I converted many a w98 user. Now it's become an unreliable hit amd miss nightmare rtfm again Vote: 'Yast2 should be able to resize a ntfs partition'. . .Those in favour. . . . . Cheers. Steve. On Wednesday 10 September 2003 17:11, Damian O'Hara wrote:
Hi Pat,
I would rather have the SuSE-provided tools. Even more I would like to know that they're there. Not exactly "advertised" are they ?
Don't tell me it's all in the manual - I know it is, but I've used SuSE since 5.1 and have given up on the manuals for "power user" advice - that's not what SuSE wrote them for.
Instead I've found workarounds but, like Steve, I get bored/frustrated when there are a lot of them to do.
Oh, and so far the workarounds haven't involved an $80 purchase (touch wood)(pats head).
Damian
BandiPat wrote:
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