On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:17:15PM -0800, Rod Roark wrote: > > v1.0 Xandros CDs come with a problem called PQDisk, which can be used to > > resize NTFS partitions among others types. > > There's a program called QTParted which also does this, and comes with > Knoppix and some other distributions. It uses the ntfsresize utility, > which in turn is part of the ntfsprogs package.
Rod, Good point I should have mentioned ntfsresize... To explain why I bothered write this up... why not use ntfsresize? With the PQDisk program no defrag is required, it moves the data blocks while resizing partitions. The last few times I tried to use ntfsresize, it reported that blocks were in use at the end of the partition and could only shrink the partition by a few K. Modern disk "defrag" windows programs don't actually move all data from the end of disk area... so after doing a few unproductive defrag then ntfsresize cycles I looked for something else. This was before ntfsresize supported moving of data blocks ... After checking the ntfsutils website I see that now the latest ntfsresize 1.9.0, which came out Mar 12th, added support for moving of data blocks so defrag is not required. Provided it works that is a better way to go than this PQDisk thing. I'll test it out next time I encounter NTFS. The ntfsresize FAQ is here: http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
