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Devastator

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 179

Is it possible to resize the partitions without losing data?

I have following issue:
I have dual-boot Arch with Windows XP. I created 4 partitions: 40GB XP's system disk (ntfs), 80GB ntfs data disk, 1GB swap and 25GB Linux partition.
But I am running XP so rarely, that it is frustrating, that I have most of my data on ntfs partition... I'd like to wipe out that 80GB ntfs, resize the system ntfs partition up to for example 60GB, and add the remaining 60GB to my linux ext3 partition (because I'm running out of free space recently...).
Has anyone done something like this, and how safe it is (if possible at all)

Yes, I have read this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Res … _partition, and a few more.

I just don't have time to reinstall both systems (especially I would not like to install Windows, because I'd rather install Vista from my recovery disk, than hack the XP to work again...), and if some issues are likely to appear, then I'll give it up for now .

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Is it possible to resize the partitions without losing data?

It's trivial using gparted, but as with any similar operation, you run the risk of losing data - so you'd better backup.