On August 15, 2015 10:55:10 PM EDT, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >> Apparently Gparted now uses a newer version of libparted that is >> causing problems. > >> Has anybody had any positive experiences lately? >> Thanks >> Ottavio > >I'd be scared to try it. > >I believe Gparted is a Linux distro. At first, I thought you were >referring to resizing an NTFS partition from NetBSD. > >I've never been able to read or write NTFS from NetBSD. I was able to >build fuse-ntfs-3g for FreeBSD from ports, but failed in NetBSD with >pkgsrc. > >For backing up, you could use an external hard drive, USB, or better >yet, eSATA. > >I've been thinking about ordering a MicroNet Fantom external hard >drive, would go for eSATA model.
Ages ago I used sysutils/ntfsprogs running on NetBSD to resize an NTFS volume and it went quite smoothly. I haven't used gparted for this purpose, so I can comment on that. Regardless of what you use, doing it w/o *some* kind of backup is playing with fire. Eric
