On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 03:05:15PM -0700, Dustin Harriman wrote:
No. However I think there are some efforts to add to parted support to
resize ntfs by external library (as this is done with reiserfs).
It seems quite unlikely that ntfs resizing will get into GNU parted
anytime soon. The
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:59:01PM -0700, Dustin Harriman wrote:
Then apparently cfdisk can delete and recreate the partition around the
smaller NTFS data, but I don't know the args.
Me too.
Anton Zinoviev
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I'm just kind of thinking out loud here, in case anyone else is
entertaining the idea of using ntfsresize for shrinking NTFS partitions
in d-i.
IMHO, growing NTFS partitions is not very important, it's the shrinking of
them. That's the scenrio all the Windows refugees are in, they want more
free
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 03:05:15PM -0700, Dustin Harriman wrote:
So ntfstools (the command
line programs) and libntfs5 (the library) seem much more
realistic/quicker routes to get NTFS resizing into d-i.
Ok.
I also see that d-i includes many .deb files that are not in .udeb format.
In the
Feel free to file a wishlist bug report against ntfsresize for making an
udeb.
Anton Zinoviev
OK, I've opened a new bug against linux-ntfs: 265617
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265617
Thanks everyone for the info as I learn the Debian way (of development) :)
Dustin
I agree with this. I found the partitioning to be a
bit confusing. Fortunately I did not have a Windoze
partition to wory about and I had backed up my /home.
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Paul Harper wrote:
I agree with this. I found the partitioning to be a
bit confusing. Fortunately I did not have a Windoze
partition to wory about and I had backed up my /home.
In contrast, I installed SuSE the other day, intending to trash my
Windows98. However, the installer explicitly
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:04:41PM -0700, Dustin Harriman wrote:
So I was about to give up that it was
even possible to resize the partition, but in a giddy moment of reckless
abandon, I hit enter on the line that I assumed merely reported the size
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:04:41PM -0700, Dustin Harriman wrote:
Also, the installation documentation here:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html#id2514217
which talks about partitioning never mentions the word resize.
Showing this diagram (with better formatting) in the
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:48:28AM -0700, Dustin Harriman wrote:
Showing this diagram (with better formatting) in the docs (above) would go
a long way:
partman can create file systems that parted cannot. But you are right
that the installation manual lacks an information about resizing and
No. However I think there are some efforts to add to parted support to
resize ntfs by external library (as this is done with reiserfs).
It seems quite unlikely that ntfs resizing will get into GNU parted
anytime soon. The GNU parted mailing list shows very little actvity in
this regard over
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