[Sussex] Repartitioning

John D. big-john at dsl.pipex.com
Fri Jan 7 00:49:49 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 00:37 +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:34:53AM +0000, paul Morriss wrote:
> > What is the best way of repartitioning the Win XP home parition
> > without the need of buying something like Partition Magic.
> 
> You're referring to "resizing", rather than repartitioning, I'd have
> said -- shrink the Xp partition down, and then in the free space you
> have, repartition that?
> 
> GNU-parted might help, although I doubt it as it is unable to resize
> NTFS partitions. It'll work with FAT32, though.
> 

I've got an idea that Mandrakes partition manager will re-size an NTFS
partition - It doesn't write to NTFS (yet) though.

You could try that, then just install something in the place where you
installed mandrake if it's not "your cup of tea"?

regards

John D.
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