[Sussex] Repartitioning

paul Morriss paul.morriss at tokenbay.co.uk
Fri Jan 7 00:50:10 UTC 2005


Sorry yes, resize the XP Home partition down to allow Debian to be 
installed, I use XP home for dev so can't afford to loose it.  The 
machine is a laptop incase thats important and XP is NTFS.

Many thanks

Paul

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.
> 
> -- Thomas Adam
> 


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