Amos' advice below is actually not correct in all circumstances. If you are shrinking a NTFS filesystem, you should *NOT* change the host partition size with fdisk first. By doing this, ntfsresize will no longer have access to the "tail" of the partition you have chopped off, and you will have a broken NTFS filesystem (The tail would be left in unallocated space)
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:42 AM, bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note - Using 57676M ( obtained from result of sudo ntfsresize -i /dev/sda1 > > above) didnt work. > > > > Is it safe to use sudo ntfsresize --force -s 43896M /dev/sda1 or do I > risk > > losing my data? > > You should first resize the partition in the partition table (using > fdisk, delete then re-create the partition, change its type to "7" > (NTFS)), have you done that? > After that is done, ntfsresize will by default automatically resize > the file system to occupy the entire partition (see the bottom of the > output from running "ntfsresize" without arguments). > > --Amos > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Regards, Martin Martin Visser -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
