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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(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 15006.027 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
(parted) resize 1 0.031 10006.027
No Implementation: Support for opening ntfs file systems is not
implemented yet.
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Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Fr, den 19.03.2004 schrieb Darren Grant um 19:47:
>I have a 20 GB HD and have XP installed on the first 16 GBs and Fedora
>installed on the last 4 GBs. I use grub as the boot loader. Is there
>an opensource linux tool that would let me safely resize those
>partitions so that they're more like 10 GBs each? Something like
>partition magic, but that's open source?
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>Thanks,
>Darren
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parted and qtparted, which is the GUI version using QT libs.
Asked and answered several times. Please make use of the archive.
Alexander