[Gllug] Installation Information

[Dermot Moynihan]

The only thing that I know of for shrinking an NTFS partition so as to make 
a couple of additional partitions to take Linux is Partition Magic. And 
possibly very early versions of Magic won't do the job. The current version 
is 8.
Also, Magic is the only thing I've found that will allow changing NTFS back 
to FAT16 or 32. XP contains, as did 2000, convert.exe which allows one way 
conversion to NTFS. But, as Walid said, there ain't "no way back". Without 
a wee bit of Magic, that is.
Dermot

At 10:53 29/01/03, Pete Ryland wrote:

>On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:05:11AM +0000, Walid Shaari wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 00:47, Pete Ryland wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:00:51PM +0000, Colin Murphy wrote:
> > > > * get hold of a product that will allow you to change the ntfs 
> partition,
> > > > so you can make space for a new partition onto which you can 
> install Linux
> > >
> > > It's possible XP itself has a utility to do this.  I vaugly remember NT
> > > having this (it's been a while since I used windows though).
> >
> > In NT it was one-way only from fat to ntfs, no way back
> > not sure about XP!?
>
>Sorry, I meant resizing ntfs filesystems.