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I have 2 hard drives. I have Arch and some other distros installed on primary drive and windows install (ntfs) and /home on secondary drive.
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250058268160 bytes
255 glav, 63 sektorjev/stezo, 30401 stez
Enote = cylinders od 16065 x 512 = 8225280 bajtov
Naprava Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 14589 117186111 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 14590 30279 126029925 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 30280 30401 979965 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I want to shrink NTFS partition and expand /home. I'm going to backup /home on portable drive, shrink NTFS partition erase old /home and make new one from all remainig space. Then I will copy data back from portable drive.
I'd like to know if it is safe to resize NTFS partition with parted? Do I have to defragment that partition first?
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I used the gparted live cd to resize my NTFS windows partition before. It worked for me. But I'd still try and back up everything before hand, just in case. Good luck!
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Ditto, gparted from a live CD or a running Linux distro on the same box seems to work well. I resized my NTFS this way.
Cast off the Microsoft shackles Jan 2005
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