-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 October 2003 15:35, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> > Just a note about parted. I used it a few days ago to resize an ntfs > > partition (main windows xp installation partition). I think I did > > everything correctly (defragmented the ntfs partition from within > > windows, and resized the partition using parted from within knoppix), > > but to my great disappointment windows would no longer boot under grub. > > Looks like the ntfs boot header part got messed up. > > > > I don't know what are other people's experiences with parted, and > > actually I would like to know what other people thing and if possible > > what did I do wrong. Anyhow I feel parted should be used with a lot of > > caution as with all these partition modifying utilities. > > I was under the impression that NTFS support under parted was *extremely* > experimental. It's experimental in windows too! :) I had to do some NTFS resizing 2-3 weeks ago now. Also using knoppix, but not parted, just ntfs-resize (or whatever the command actually is). It worked a treat. I suspect I may have also run the ntfs fixer thingy (you'll see it). - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/k/XoInuLMrk7bIwRAlNfAJ9f6MWpCQ1dsufra+snchYrbuw01gCeL26C uvsWCT8WNbQ2No+3EIfyFlc= =MCVD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
