On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 14:32, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > Ross Werner wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Bryan Murdock wrote: > > > >>Hooray for Mandrake! I've heard the newest Mandrake installer even > >>handles NTFS. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Mandrake is an > >>awesome distro, for newbies and for the more experienced! > > > > > > Now this Mandrake-install-partition-resizer ... does it have a name? Is it > > available not-as-part-of-Mandrake? > > It's really just fips and ntfsresize and parted cobbled into their > installer. QTParted is a not-part-of-mandrake thing that uses exactly > the same tools. Knoppix has it so you can use knoppix to do everything > you might do with Partition Magic. I still prefer PM because I feel > safer that way.
ntfs is really easy to resize. Fat32 is much more difficult (but better documented). I've seen so many partition resizes (both ntfs and fat32) fail under partition magic that I personally trust ntfsresize as driven by QTParted more than PM. Michael > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
