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samoturk

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From: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 86

Safest way to resize ntfs partition

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?

tom5760

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From: Philadelphia, PA, USA

Registered: 2006-02-05

Posts: 283

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Re: Safest way to resize ntfs partition

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!

mac57

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From: St. Somewhere

Registered: 2006-01-06

Posts: 302

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Re: Safest way to resize ntfs partition

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.

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