Well some experimenting and researching showed me that repartitioning is not as easy as first thought.
Running defrag with Windows 2000 worked the first time but then told me that it needed no further defragging. This was with a fresh W2k installation. Running (with Knoppix) either ntfsresize or qtparted told me that the partition was still fragmented and that I could only resize the 4870Mb ntfs partition to 4509Mb. I found this with Google - "Not many defraggers leave the end space clean; actually, I've only found one, O&O Defrag(www.oo-software.com) that does so with NTFS..." Anyone have any bright ideas? Does this problem disappear with larger hard drives? FYI - You may be wondering why I did not allocate the required partition size when installing W2k. My experiments are trying to find a way to repartition PC's which are built with an image (which does not give the partition size option at install) Robert -----Original Message----- From: Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 8 October 2003 2:14 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Dual booting XP and debian Even easier (if you like GUI's) - Knoppix 3.2 and above has QTParted - a graphical clone of Partition Magic. It works on other file systems too. Robert Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile way and you have their shoes. -----Original Message----- From: Philip Charles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 8 October 2003 11:15 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dual booting XP and debian On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Luuk Paulussen wrote: > The other method I found was to put linux as the master drive and remap the > drives when loading windows. I will probably end up reinstalling Debian > anyway, with a bit more eye-candy now that I have a bit more power :) But I > want to extract my home directory and the apt cache first to save lots of > redownloading. I have a page that you might find helpful. http://www.copyleft.co.nz/install-prnt.html It is how you can split a NTFS partition with Knoppix. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818 Fax +64 3 488 2875 Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux & GNU/Hurd CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz
