-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 15:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I went I saw I didnt do very well.
Don't sell yourself short, Hoyt. You're learning, and that's always good. > I did find the resize option > but it said I should run chkdisk from the run command. Windows > couldnt find chkdisk. As an alternative it also suggested > defragment. Results as follows: Volume size: 46.54GB > Cluster size: 4KB > Used space: 6.48GB > Free space: 40.096GB > Percent free space: 86% > Total fragmention: 0% > Total files: 30,447 > Average frag' per file: 1 > Toral frag': 1 > Pagefile size: 377MB > Total fragments: 1 > Total folders: 1961 > Fragmented folders: 1 > Total MFT file: 76MB > Percent MFT in use: 41 > Total MFT fragments: 3 > I dont know what this all means but the # of fragments dont add up. > Also the unmoveable files moved out of the group of files, on the > defragmention screen, that are contiguous that is new. I don't know much about XP, Hoyt, so someone else will have to help here. If you don't get a reply on that one fairly soon start a new thread with a subject that specifies XP + Linux install and explain the situation. There are people here who have done this several times. > I > originally established the windows partition at 50GB. My current > plan is to shrink it to 25GB. Is this rational ? Sounds fine to me. > Also is it > possible for windows and linux to use the same swap file, > currently windows recognizes the swap file in linux as a logical > partition? > That doesn't sound right. As far as I know windows cannot see a linux swap partition. > I feel like I'm getting into deep dodo. Worry not - I know, it's easy for me to talk <g>. Someone will help dig you out, then you'll wonder what all the fuss was about ;-) Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQgc4kFAvMr/nNX8RAsp9AKCDV0UnCe7jGEU4SjwTw9g9PU6T7gCfX3b2 omKt7IcG6t5UR6ifN5TK5MU= =K1pR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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