On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 01:04, Adam Williamson wrote: > > As said in another mail is it http://ntfs-linux.sf.net ? > > Today, people who want to install linux have only one HD computer with windows > > XP preinstalled. They want to try linux because [put what you want here]. > > But, only with windows and linux they *can't* go futher. > > XP uses ntfs partition, and so the 9.0 installer can't resize some place. > > If they try to pass out the 'obscure' message, they loose they HD. (perhaps > > you will have to write "like in windows XP or 2000"). > > So I think a tool who can resize a ntfs partition cannot be left out of the > > main distribution. > > This is a no-go thing. > > This is something of a sweeping generalisation. The proportion of all > PCs that are running XP is, as yet, still pretty tiny, and by no means > do all XP installations - pre-installed or not - use NTFS; a lot of > vendors still use FAT32 by preference. But yes, NTFS will increase its > presence over time, so something **RELIABLE** that can resize NTFS > partitions would be good. But I think it's important that it's a > well-tested utility, because a Mandrake that can't be installed without > help on an NTFS disk is still infinitely preferable to one that tries to > resize an NTFS disk and trashes it.
Further to the above... The page is http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net The status page doesn't make it look particularly like a tool that should be relied upon to mess with people's disks during installation: "NTFS - Original Driver ... N.B. This driver has now been abandoned in favour of the new one. NTFS - New Driver Status Read support has been completed and tested and the driver is in the 2.5.x kernel series since 2.5.11. The driver is much faster and cleaner than the old one, hence a better platform for new development. A backport to the 2.4 kernel series is available from our downloads page. ToDo Add support for writing. mkntfs Stable Create an NTFS volume on a partition ntfsfix Beta Tell windows we've made changes to a volume ntfslabel Beta Display or set a volume's label ntfsresize Beta Resize an NTFS volume Note particularly the Beta status of those last three tools, and the warning on the front page to back up your data before using the beta tools... -- adamw
