[Nottingham] Partition resizing
Danny King
dannyking at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 12:58:57 UTC 2009
Great, thanks guys! I'll use rsync and I'll take a look at those
filesystem utilities.
Thanks again!
2009/1/16 James Gibbon <jg at jamesgibbon.com>:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:11:14 +0000
> Jim Moore <jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Personally, I would forget NTFS for a data partition, instead going
>> with ext3. Don't fret, there're win32 utilities that allow RW access
>> to ext3 partitions, such as the one at
>> http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ which is the one I used to
>> use. Didn't stop using it because I didn't like it, it's an excellent
>> piece of kit, I stopped using it because I stopped using NT. Caveat:
>> it is a readonly utility. For full RW, there's ext2 IFS which does
>> also support ext3. Caveat: the IFS driver is not supported in Vista.
>> This utility is not OSS, but is distributed under a Freeware license.
>>
>
> It does actually work nicely in Vista. I've had it running on 'er
> indoors' laptop for a year now.
>
> http://www.fs-driver.org/
>
> James
>
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