One other note to this - yes, run the defragger, but ensure you have deselected the option to "place data and programs to optimize performance" - something similar to that anyway - at least in 98. If you defrag with this on, Mr. Gates will stick a whole lost of stuff at the very end of your partition and diskdrake won't let you do anything with it.
Brian On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 02:08, Dave Sherman wrote: > On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 03:57, Nick wrote: > > Does anyone know of a partition tool in Linux that can resize a partition > > with losing the data? Thanks > > -- > > Mandrake's own diskdrake can do it. I've successfully re-sized my > Windows partition (made it smaller, to give more room for Linux) without > losing any data. > > However, it is important to run disk defragmenter before resizing your > Windows partition. This will bring all the fragmented bits of files > together toward the beginning of the hard disk, leaving you more clean > and available space in the partition. > > Dave > -- > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good > with ketchup. > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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