There's also a product called partition commander (goto v-com.com.) I got it for 29 bucks (supposedly an upgrade, but I don't recall them asking for proof...) It's $49 without the upgrade.
I had no problem converting NTFS -> FAT32, which linux handles just fine (don't know about ext2/3, but is that really necessary?) It also does partition resizing (including ext3 and reiser), creation, copy, etc. My experience is that this is a program that you'll use "more than once". AFAIK, there are no free programs that will do this (although you might want to check out "parted", to see what kind of progress they're making.) One drawback, however, is that you'll need a windoze machine to create the boot disks... OK, a second drawback, the boot floppy has this annoying tendency to install it's own boot manager--but it's simple enough to remove the command (checkmbr, I think) from the autoexec.bat. Alternatively, if you have enough free space on your linux partitions, you could try tar-ing the files and then removing the NTFS partition. The tar-ed files will take up less than the full 40GB, esp if you use compression. Another alternative would be an external USB hard-drive. They aren't that much more expensive than an internal (+$40 or so, via mail-order), and you won't have the problem of running out of IDE slots. Or, you could buy a tape drive--that way you could make those regular backups that you've been meaning to do... ;) (No, I don't either...) -Jason On Monday 02 June 2003 05:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 02 Jun 2003 8:01 pm, Steven Broos wrote: > > I was looking for a way to convert the data. I don't have enough > > disk-space to resize©. ========================= ...And sometimes there's a short cut. A door or a gate. Some standing stones. A tree cleft by lightning, a filing cabinet. Maybe just a spot onsome moorland somewhere... A place where THERE is very nearly HERE... If some people knew where such a spot was, if they had experience of what happens when here and there become entangled, then they might - if they knew how - mark such a spot with certain stones. In the hope that enough daft buggers would take it as awarning and keep away. (Lords and Ladies)
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