In general, the good news is that some distros (SuSE and Mandrake at least) have a partition tool that will not blow existing Windows files, even in NTFS. That's great.
and... On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:49:33 -1000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Of course, you need to defrag your NTFS > partition first and try and get your system files (well, the pagefile) > moved somewhere sorta contiguous to the rest of the windoze stuff so > that the partition tool has room to work. Exactly how is this done? What comes to mind is: o Create drive D if not already there o Create pagefile on D o Zero out pagefile on C (this deletes it) o Resize C (make smaller) o Back in Windows, create pagefile on C Is there a better, faster way? -- _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Gary Dunn _/ _/ Open Slate Project _/ _/ http://openslate.sourceforge.net/ _/ _/ http://www.aloha.com/~knowtree/ _/ _/ Honolulu _/ _/ registered Linux user #273809 _/ _/ _/ _/ This tagline is umop apisdn. _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/