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jmull

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Registered: 2004-05-31

Posts: 14

Partition Questions

Im interested in installing Archlinux onto my laptop.  Ive already got XP installed on it, and im interested in finding a free program similar to Partition Magic that will let me partition my drive without losing data.  I'm also using Arch on my home server, and when I used the partition program that comes with arch, all my data was lost when I repartitioned.  Ive tried Partition Magic, but I cant do anything unless I pay for it, which I really cant afford to do right now.

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: Partition Questions

I've never used it, but I think this can handle it:
http://www.ranish.com/part/

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ravster

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From: Queen's U, Kingston, Canada

Registered: 2004-05-02

Posts: 285

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Re: Partition Questions

Maybe you could try GNU Parted. You could try using it as a boot disk(http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manu … .html#SEC7) of it. I allows you to resize FAT32 partitions, but I don't think it can handle NTFS

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orelien

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From: France

Registered: 2002-12-05

Posts: 220

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Re: Partition Questions

You can use ntfsresize.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … ntfsresize