On Sat, 22 May 2004, Clayton wrote:
I see your point here and I am so eager to install SuSE 9.1. It's just that I can't ignore the messages I read. Especially I am concerned with this issue about NTFS resizing described in this review:
Personally... I wouldn't use the SUSE installer to resize an NTFS partition. I've had no problems with FAT32 partitions, but NTFS and Linux don't play well together. Do it the easy way... use native Windows tools to do it. You can use some of the tools provided with Win2k (not sure about XP) or use a 3rd party tool like Partition Magic. Saves you a lot of grief and trouble.
C.
I agree completely. I always use Partition Magic to resize Winxx partitions. Even then you are not immune as I learned the hard way once when I didn't do a diskcheck before repartitioning. Partitionmagic will stop the process when encountering bad blocks and you will end up with a hung process. At that point you will hope to have done a backup... Alex.