Andrew Biggadike wrote:
I have a laptop that's dual booting Windows 2000 and Debian (woody), and
I want to resize my partitions so I can give some of the space on the
Windows partition to Debian's /. Does anyone have any recommendations
as to the best way to go about doing this?
If I use a Windows tool, such as PartitionMagic, is it true that I won't
have to modify anything within Linux in order for it to function
properly? If not, what would I need to do?
If I wanted to do it from Linux, how would I go about doing it?
I guess the main thing, obviously, is that I don't want to break
anything; I'd just like some more room to play with on this end. I've
cleaned up and defragmented the Windows partition. Links to HOWTOs and
other helpful documentation should be sufficient. Thanks,
Andrew
Oh, and in case it matters:
hda1 FAT32 16861.83
hda2 Linux ext2 /boot 49.36
hda3 Linux ext2 / 2558.07
hda5 Linux swap 534.65
I am in this situation with the exception that my Windows 2000 partition
is NTFS so I assumed off the bat that there wouldn't be a linux
solution. I've resized by NTFS partition twice. My method was to just
shrink the NTFS to create free space and then use nparted in linux to
actually create the new partitions. I used Partition Magic. When you
open it up, it(at least for me) will claim that the partition table has
'errors' and offer to fix them. You pretty much don't have a choice if
you want to use the program so go along. In the process of fixing the
errors, it will randomly renumber the partitions at which point you may
or may not be able to boot into linux. Finish resizing the windows
partition and try to reboot into linux(you may get lucky). If not boot
from a rescue CD and fix /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo at
which point you shouldn't have any problems... Though you may have
significantly more options since your windows partition isn't NTFS...
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