On 08/11/2010 05:48 PM, Paul Boniol wrote:
Last night's meeting sounded very interesting, but I had to work.
(We're getting ready for the students to return, so everyone has their
last minute requests.)
Tonight's Quandary
It's been a long time since I've needed to keep an existing Windows
install and install Linux on the same box. So I need to shrink up the
Windows (XP Pro) partition so I have room for Linux on the box,
hopefully without loosing the ability to boot Windows if needed
(without doing a complete backup/restore would be nice). I'm pretty
sure my old Partition Magic will work on the relatively newer NTFS,
and Partition Magic was discontinued in December so I am looking
elsewhere.
I see several free and some commercial products in my search results.
I was just wondering if anyone had positive/negative experiences with
partition management software, esp. shrinking a Windows NTFS
partition? (Yes, I know a complete backup would be best... but it
takes quite a bit of time/disks.)
Paul Boniol
I've had reasonable success with [parted | gparted] resizing NTFS. I
know we all flinch at the thought after early catastrophes dealing with
NTFS.
As for backup, what external storage do you have available??
Howard
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