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By: paulway
Hi there!
I've been trying to repartition my 60GB drive for a couple of days now. I want
a 10GB ext2 partition on the end of it so I can boot into Linux but at the moment
the NTFS partition (running Windows 2000) takes all the space. I'm using the
ntfsresize and qt_parted programs on the System Rescue CD version 0.2.7 (don't
know actual version numbers). I've done several defragmentations in Windows
but each time ntfsresize (and qt_parted) says that there is only a couple of
kilobytes of space at the end of the partition that can be resized.
I'm now running a defragmentation in Safe Mode, after having deleted a bunch
of junk that I was stalling over doing anything about (got me an extra 5GB).
When I get home tonight I'll try it again to see if this makes any difference.
Previously I'd tried turning off everything that could be writing to the disk
(not in Safe Mode though).
However... my next thought was to use ntfsclone to take a copy of the entire
partition, then blow the whole partition table away. Make a 50MB boot partition,
a 50GB NTFS partition and a ~9GB root ext2 partition, and finally use ntfsclone
to put the NTFS partition back 'where it came from'. I can't see anything in
the ntfsclone documentation that states that the partition must be exactly the
same size as what it came from, but then there's nothing in there that says
that it can be different either. I've used Ghost in the past and it won't try
to restore an image to a partition of a different size, so I'm guessing the
same might apply here. Does it?
The next thing to do is to use Windows Backup to back up the disk, then blow
the partition away and reinstall Windows and restore the backup. This is ugly
and not sure of success. The 160GB disk I'd be backing up to and restoring
from is going to another machine, so it can't stay in this one unfortunately.
Thanks in advance,
Paul Wayper (pa...@ma...)
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