Another vote for Gparted. I've used it many, many times and have never had any problems. I don't usually defrag first. Gparted can move the data if it needs to. It makes partition resizing take longer, but I don't think there are any real data integrity issues introduced by not defragging first.
Chris On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Paul Boniol <paul.bon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Last night's meeting sounded very interesting, but I had to work. > (We're getting ready for the students to return, so everyone has their > last minute requests.) > > Tonight's Quandary > > It's been a long time since I've needed to keep an existing Windows > install and install Linux on the same box. So I need to shrink up the > Windows (XP Pro) partition so I have room for Linux on the box, > hopefully without loosing the ability to boot Windows if needed > (without doing a complete backup/restore would be nice). I'm pretty > sure my old Partition Magic will work on the relatively newer NTFS, > and Partition Magic was discontinued in December so I am looking > elsewhere. > > I see several free and some commercial products in my search results. > I was just wondering if anyone had positive/negative experiences with > partition management software, esp. shrinking a Windows NTFS > partition? (Yes, I know a complete backup would be best... but it > takes quite a bit of time/disks.) > > Paul Boniol > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
