While repartitioning the data is moved around the disk, also because of this it's healthy to do a full defragmention before.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:17 PM, David Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 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 > > > > -- Robert Orben - "Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
