On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Maor Meir wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Slava Shklyar wrote: > > > Try Partition Magic ... > > Also, if you are going to install Linux, some distributions have own > > partition tools with NTFS support ... > > To the best of my knowledge there is only one free software > ntfs resize tool, and their are various frontends for it, > Mandrake now has a frontend, and QTparted knows how to use it > and probably several more. > > ntfsresize currently does not support resizing fragmented partitions.
Actually, qtparted seems to use ntfsresize (or the same code) for resizing NTFS partitions. I recently had exactly the same problem (fragmanted partition) with ntfsresize . ntfsresize gave me an error , and suggested to use XP's defrag. defrag turned out to be quite lousy: only after clearing out some more free disk space (~5GB instead of ~2.5GB) I could get it to defrag all the files. I still had one fragmanted directory, and a fragmanted MFT which seemed impossible to get reed of. Like Eli, I configured the syste,m not to use virtual memory. And still I got that error. The software is ntfs tools 0.51 (?) of knoppix 3.2 (22-9). qtparted seemed to have some problems with that partition. (and of course: resizing the filesystem is only the first stage. One has to be careful later when resizing the partition itself). -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
