Hi James,

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 02:52:48PM +0100, James Bensley wrote:

> Knowers-of-all;

Not yet. ;)

> I am wanting to alter the partition sizes of a Windows Server 2003 box
> we have and I was planning to boot up with a GParted Live CD but will
> it be able to see my NTFS partitions to resize them?
> 
> The box in question is a PE1950 with a Perc 5/i with two SATAII drives
> in a hardware RAID1, on that sits two Logical Volumes, ignore volume
> 1; on volume 0 there are two partitions C: and P: and I want to shrink
> P: and then grow C: but does anyone know if Gparted can see NTFS
> partitions, on a LV, on the hardware RAID on a Perc 5/i? Seems a bit
> far fetched to me?

Just try it. ;-) It should work since the PERC drivers have been part of
standard Linux kernels for quite some time and GParted is based on
rather recent kernels. The kernel driver will make your LVs appear as
/dev/sda and /dev/sdb, GParted should know about the rest.

HTH,

Tino.

-- 
"What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht."

www.tisc.de

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