On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Kane wrote:
> I have an NTFS partition and want to make it smaller. The problem is, that
> there is some data at the end of the partition. I defragmented the partition
> with windows, but it doesn't help. Do you have an idea?
I've written some suggestions here:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=885888&forum_id=44085
The parameter for 'find' should be -inum, not -i. However that sysinternal
defragmenter didn't really help out everybody (actually, so far nobody).
But turning off Windows swap and/or hibernation file temporarily helped
many people. For swap file: right-click on MyComputer -> Properties ->
Advanced -> Settings (Performance) -> Advanced -> Change (virtual memory)
-> select "no virtual memory" -> Set). For hibernation, I don't remember.
Moreover I also have a binary of the development version of ntfsresize I
wrote about on the above page for people who don't want or can't compile it
themself at http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ Just look for the version
ntfsresize-latest_date.gz. But it still doesn't have the data relocation
code. However you could see what files use that space and delete,
copy-delete_original them if they are not system or ntfs internal files.
If everything fails then you might consider to use BootItNG, I've never
used it but people wrote good opinion about it. AFAIK it's a non-crippled
shareware, 30 days trial.
Cheers,
Szaka
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