[Gllug] Problem solved was Err, if parted fails to resize an XP partition, can one do it within XP with some system tool?]

M.Blackmore mblackmore at oxlug.org
Sat May 17 19:05:17 UTC 2008


I was ferreting through the mag dvd pile when I spotted a Xandros DVD -
and ISTR it doesn't use parted and a lot of other tools, and <hiss> has
cross licenced with MS, so gave it a whirl.

Resized XP disk and installed without a hitch. 

Actually on first glance (I set it up to lookalike "Redmond" mode for
the wife as she uses XP at work <double boo hiss> it looks pretty good
for her needs - menus tend to be where she expects to find them,
crossover office (trial alas) installed by default, no fiddling. No idea
about codecs yet for playing media, bet they are in the paid for
section.

Err, anyone know where one can get dodgy opening key numbers for Xandros
from >;) 

It will be over a month before I've had time to try out everything with
the school break coming and a lot of work on renovating the house as my
neurodegenerative illness tends to remission for a few months over the
warmer weather (tho' this sudden chill after a few days put me in bed
for 2 days, just getting going again this evening). 

If it works out OK I might try and get her office to buy it for her to
use at home... I refuse point blank to let any windows machine on our
network at home to be exposed to the internet, I don't have the time to
fiddle forever with useless virii blockers, nor the money to endlessly
upgrade them bought in, and doubt the office will budget that side of
things and won't pay for an XP licence for her, tho' we've banned XP for
all but OFF internet games for the kids.

I suppose I could set up another firewall and connect a games PC/s to
that and then to outside world - would that isolate the home network if
I go router -> firewall1 -> homenetwork of linuxen boxen 

-> firewall 2 -> XP box(es) with whatever free protection programs
people recommend

NO INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN 2 NETWORKS IN THE HOUSE.


Or is leaving the router as a  single point of connection to our ISP
going to two firewalls going to weaken my IPCop based reliance too much
and leave us open to attack via the router?

I don't know enough except to use IPCop pretty well out of the box
y'see.


Now still the question - why should parted and gparted fail to resize
the disk in the first place? Does suse use parted as well? And what does
Xandros use?

Malcolm

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 23:06 +0100, M.Blackmore wrote:

> I've not come across this problem before, but parted (on more than one
> bootupCD  of different linux varieties, including non debian
> derivatives) is failing to shrink a 40gb XP ntfs single partition disk
> down to 2 x 20/20gb parts for linux installation. Error message is
> totally unhelpful - basically says error can't shrink...
> 
> I seem to recall someone saying in passing on a lis (this?)t that XP
> itself had a tool for resizing partitions. Can someone (a) confirm
> that is the case and (b) give me some indication of where to find it,
> if such exists, 'cos I haven't yet found it on my menu fumblings (I've
> now increased my count of XP start ups to over a dozen since it was
> first released now, but bet its' still under 20 times I'ver booted
> into it on a computer of mine!!).
> 
> Or any freebie alternatives for shrinking parts in XPland?
> 
> Why should parted be failing I wonder? New one on me, that problem
> is...
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