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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2007-06-07 10:11:16
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Hi, On 7 Jun 2007, at 09:16, K T Ligesh wrote: > Thanks for the reply. That solved it beautifully. First run fdisk - > lu to find the beginning of the partition, and then use losetup to > mount it. (-: > Can you just confirm these are the steps to use ntfsresize on a > windows disk image? > > a) Increase the actual disk image > > b) Use parted to fill the partition to the full hard disk image > > c) Losetup the partition to dev/loop > > d) Run ntfsresize on /dev/loop Yes, that should work as long as parted doesn't screw up the partition table in any way... I would suggest to either keep a backup of the partition table (just use "dd" to make a copy of the first 512 bytes of your disk which will contain it) or to use fdisk to be on the safe side. > Thanks a lot in advance. You are welcome. Best regards, Anton > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Linux-NTFS-User mailing list > Lin...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-ntfs-user Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ |
