resize NTFS partition questions.

[Jeffrey W. Stein]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:56, Mike Wills wrote:
> The install for Mandrake actaully allows you to resize NTFS
> partitions. I have used it and it seems to work. Of course there is
> the usual caution of potenitally destroying the Windows partition if
> there is data where you deleted the partition....
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:57:19 -0500, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a free tool to resize an NTFS partition on a hard
> > drive in preparation for installing fedora to dual boot?
> > 
> > I have researched fips, parted, partition magic, and others and so far
> > the only one I can find that will allow resizing of the NTFS partition
> > is PM (not free).
> > 
> > I am installing Fedora for a customer on her laptop and have previously
> > not needed to handle NTFS partitions, but now I have this one to deal
> > with.
> > 
> > TIA
> > Jeff
> > 
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You might want to look at QtParted:
<http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/index.en.html>. I successfully shrank
an NTFS partition from an existing Windows XP Home installation so that
I could dual boot Fedora Core 1 for running MythTV. 

I would just make sure that you back up anything vital, just in case.

Good luck,

Jeff