Resizing NTFS partition to make room for FC10

[Tod Thomas]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Tod Thomas wrote:
>   
>> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>     
>>> Tod Thomas wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Thanks.  I thought that recreating the partition using fdisk would have
>>>> accomplished the same thing - no?  If not what does the fdisk process I
>>>> followed
>>>> do or not do?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tod
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> It will if you create a new partition table that reflects the new
>>> disk size, and do not copy the mbr from the larger disk. You will
>>> need to re-install the Windows boot loader to the mbr of the new
>>> drive, or install the Grub boot loader there, and use it to select
>>> Windows or Linux.
>>>
>>> Mikkel
>>>   
>>>       
>> Ok, I think I understand:
>>
>> /dev/hda - spare 80GB drive
>> /dev/hdb - old 150GB xp drive (primary partition ntfsresized to 20GB)
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
>>
>>     
> This will write zero's to the entire drive - a bit excessive, and
> time consuming. Add count=1 to the command.
>
>   
>> fdisk /dev/hda
>> - create new primary partition(hda1), bootable, type 7 (NTFS)
>> - this then creates the windows MBR?
>>
>>     
> It does not put the Windows boot loader one the drive, but it does
> create a new MBR.
>
>   
>> dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/hda1 bs=10000000 count=2000
>>  - copies resized xp partition to new drive
>>
>>     
> If the partitions are the same size, you should be able to do:
>
> dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sda1
>
> But I still like using parted instead of dd for this. It will handle
> any differences between the partitions.
>
>   
>> Reboot to new drive and all is well.  Defragging is factored in
>> somewhere prior to this operation.  I think upon reboot this will
>> trigger xp to perform a chkdisk.
>> Does this make sense?
>>
>>     
> I would defrag before shrinking the partition, but I guess you have
> already shrunk it. You are also going to have to boot from the
> windows CD, start the recovery console, and run fixmbr. (Or you can
> do your Linux install, install Grub, and let it boot Windows/Linux.)
>
> Mikkel
>   
Ok, great.  Thanks everybody for the information.


- Tod