On 16/5/2011, at 4:35pm, Mick wrote: >> GParted is the next choice, then - I understand it to be more than "just a >> graphical front-end", and I don't think you'll have such good results trying >> to use command-line tools to expand NTFS partitions. > ... > After your dd the data over to the new disk you will need to run > gparted as suggested by Stroller, or use ntfsresize which is what > gparted uses anyway.
I believe that GParted uses the ntfsresize *libraries* directly, rather than the ntfsresize command-line program. I believe that's why GParted behaves *better* than ntfsresize - I'm sure there has been at least one occasion on which I found it better to use GParted than ntfsresize (which wouldn't do what I wanted). I made the quoted statement for a reason. Stroller.
