After my tests a couple of days ago with qtparted on Knoppix and the Mandrake partitioning tools I would say that we should not need to use ntfsresize anyway.
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 10:17, Ross Drummond wrote: > At the preliminary meeting for the install fest repartitioning ntfs disk > partitions was discussed. > > I have just reinstalled Windows 2000 so decided to test the ntfsresize > utility. > > I have good news and bad news; > > The good news: It works > > The bad news: It takes an awfully long time, and the maintainer has just > issued a critical warning against using it with 2.6 kernel based > distributions. > > The computer: A dell with a 600 MHz processor, 128 Mb ram, 10Gb hard disk, > with a 5Gb ntfs primary partition. The operating system is Windows 2000 Pro > SP3. > > It was a completely new install with no software other than the OS loaded. The > disk was defragmented immediately after 1st boot. > > Method: The computer was booted with a Toms Root & Boot floppy. I used the > ntfsresize saticly linked binary on a floppy. > > I ran the program with the --info argument which checked the partition and > made repartitioning suggestions, followed by running the --no-action argument > to test, followed by the resizing operation for real > > The application reported that 832Mb of a 5Gb partition was used and would > shift 232 Mb to reduce a 5Gb partition to 2Gb. > > This operation took 3 hours to complete. > > fdisk was then used to delete the old ntfs partition and create a new smaller > one. > > Conclusions: > > The time taken to complete this operation will cause serious time delay > problems at the install fest. > > The maintainer reports that a combination of certain bios settings, 2.6 > kernel, and some disk partitioning program's can make Windows operating > systems unbootable. Problems have been reported with Mandrake 10, SUSE 9.1 > and Fedora 2 distos. > > If we are to offer disk repartitioning at the install fest we have further > investigations to make > > ntfsreze home page; > > http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html > > Cheers Ross Drummond Robert Fisher www.fisher.net.nz Q: What does it say on the bottom of Coke cans in North Dakota? A: Open other end.
