On Sunday 20 November 2005 11:24, Lan Barnes wrote: > At the last installfest, I bugged out before using Carl's Partition > Magic, which would have made this request moot. But here goes: > > Work "gave" me a windoze laptop so's I can work from home (apparently 40 > hours ain't enough ;). I want to dual boot the sucker so I can get some > real work done. > > No sweat except I'm told fips is passe. What do we use today to > repartition a windoze box nondestructively?
I've had good luck with Ntfsresize: http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html As you can see from the page above, recent versions are included in several "live CD" distros. I've used both Knoppix and grml for shrinking the NTFS partition on a Windows notebook. Just boot up into, e.g., Knoppix and resize the partition(s) that you need to. I've done this many times, and not had a problem yet. Of course, if you hose the laptop, I can't take responsibility ;-) (Seriously, just be sure to heed warnings, do the fscks, and be careful about what you're doing. When you shrink the NTFS partition, leave it large enough to hold the data, etc.). Steve Wickert -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
