On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 10:32 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Matthias Titeux
wrote: Le mardi 20 juillet 2010 18:22:33, Greg Freemyer a écrit :
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:12 PM, James Knott
wrote: I'm planning on installing OpenSUSE 11.3 on a friends computer, which is currently running (yuck) Vista. Will the install allow me to resize the existing NTFS partition?
tnx jk
I seriously doubt it will resize NTFS from Vista or Win 7.
It should for the XP variety. (and yes there is a difference.)
fyi: Vista/Win7 have a built in resize tool, so just boot into them and right clisk on the drive to resize IIRC.)
Greg
Hi, I dunno about Win 7 but it should work for Vista. If I recall correctly, years ago I installed Opensuse 11.0 on a laptop preinstalled with Vista (no service pack), and the installer correctly resized the NTFS partition to allow the creation of the partition needed for Opensuse.
I am 99.99% confident that openSUSE 11.0 could not resize a Vista NTFS partition. (At least a couple of times I've had to do the resize from within Vista, and I never worked with Vista at all before June, 08. 11.0 was out by then and I would have been installing the latest openSUSE versions.
What has always puzzled me is fragmentation. Surely before you resize the NTFS partition, any bits at the end must be moved to that part that will stay. This means mounting and writing to the NTFS volume directly. I would be ever so surprised if openSUSE did this during install. Perhaps on a brand new Vista, where things are not yet all through the partition, you can get away with it. By luck. Otherwise, I remain in the camp of non-believers. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org