Re-partioning

[Darren Grant]

So I was able to resize my NTFS partition down to 12 GB from 16 GB... 
this should free me up enough room to resize my root linux partition so 
that it's closer 7 GB... or so I thought.  I have a GENTOO live CD which 
I used to boot from.   I can't seem to get into a position to resize 
partition 3 though.  I thought I could move my /boot partiton number 2 
so that it started right after my XP partition, ie: 12103.660 - 
12205.634... and from there I could resize partition 3 so that it 
started at 12205.635 and continued through to 18567.312.  But when I try 
to move partition 2, I get an error saying something about it not being 
able to do that with an ext2 yet???  Anyone out there able to help me 
out... pleaaasee. :)  All I really want to do is make my root linux 
partition bigger...

> (parted) print
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-19077.187 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.031  12103.659  primary   ntfs        boot
> 2      15006.028  15108.002  primary   ext3
> 3      15108.003  18567.312  primary   ext3
> 4      18567.312  19077.187  extended              lba
> 5      18567.343  19077.187  logical   linux-swap

...notice the gap of free space between the end of the XP partition and 
the beginning of my linux partitions.


Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Fr, den 19.03.2004 schrieb Darren Grant um 20:21:
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>>Ok thanks, Alexander... I checked out parted but it doesn't seem to be 
>>able to handle NTFS partitions ...  I should have been more specific 
>>about XP being on an NTFS partition.  Anyway... that's a good idea to 
>>check out the archives... should be able to find the answer there.
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>You are right. From the feature matrix for GNU parted, NTFS is only
>recognized as a filesystem.
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>But on http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/features.en.html NTFS is listed
>as resizeable.
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>Alexander
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