On Tuesday 04 October 2005 02:28 pm, Lance Dockins wrote: > Hal V. Engel wrote: > > If all you need is enough of a Linux installation to get GIMP > > to build and to test GIMP then the amount of diskspace needed to do this > > is fairly small and you can free up a partition on your existing hard > > drive(s) to do this. > > Good point. I thought of doing this myself, but in the past I've had to > repartition my hard drive before a Linux install. Do most Linux distros > now come equipped with a partition manager that can handle an NT > partition and successfully resize it without destroying it? When I've > previously done this, I've had to use Partition Magic which is the best > proprietary software for this sort of thing, but even it had bugs in > some prior versions that would crash an NT partition. If most Linux > distros now come equipped with such a partition manager and I can trust > that my NT partition will safely remain intact, I may reconsider my > former statement. But my biggest concern is that, at present, without a > partition manager, I've still got to invest another $50 on top of losses > due to time. Not that that's a huge investment, but I've got other > financial priorities that exceed an investment in a Partition Manager. > Thanks in advance for your feedback. > > Lance
Yes most distros come with a partition manager that can handle this. Of course, you should back things up just in case and it is a good idea to defrag the partition you are shrinking before you start. I have also used the partition manager in boot-it which you can get as a trial version for $0. Hal _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
