The hard drive is 250GB, the NTFS partition is around 200GB and I wanted to take off 50GB so that should be ok.
I wasn't aware that it couldn't be reduced by more than half. Why is that? On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Icebreaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Please keep in mind to never resize an NTFS partition more then half of > it's full size, because that could cause data loss :) > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:12 PM, David Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Hmmm, I went ahead and ran the live cd (it had 8.04 on it) and at the >> partitioning section chose to reduce the NTFS volume by 50GB. It worked >> away for 20 minutes or so (progress bar stayed at 0% the whole time) and >> finally gave me an error message - something along the lines of "could not >> complete operation." Luckily no data appears to have been lost in the >> process. >> >> Does anybody know of another partitioning utility that could safely help >> me redistribute the space on my NTFS partition to my ext3 partition? >> >> Thanks for the help :) >> >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Christopher Stamper < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:44 AM, David Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >>> >>>> I unmounted it, yes. It's installed on my hard drive, not a live CD. >>> >>> >>> Running it off a live CD should do the trick. Just make sure both volumes >>> are unmounted. >>> >>> I think the 7.04 Live cd had GParted pre-installed..... >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Christopher Stamper >>> >>> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Web: http://tinyurl.com/2ooncg >>> gTalk: http://tinyurl.com/6e359r >>> Skype: cdstamper >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Dave Robinson >> >> >> >> > > > -- > > Tom Stoppard - "I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity." > > > > -- Dave Robinson --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
