Re: [OT] Tool to Resize NTFS Partitions

Colin McKinnon wrote: 
David Haggett wrote:


Odd question, for a linux group I guess, but my mum has just taken
delivery of an XPensive box, with the usual "one-big-disk" windows
approach to disk integrity.


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Doing this from SuSE (8.2, 9.0) installs worked for me. Defragging the disk
properly beforehand was a pan though (MS's defraggr doesn't pack everything
down anymore).


No, no, no! Please leave your windows mindset in the box when you start dealing with linux. Qtparted uses the ntfsresize tool to resize NTFS partitions and to quote (including bold) the man page, '*Defragmentation is NOT required prior resizing*' (sic):

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/man/ntfsresize.html

The same is true for FAT partitions. Linux utilities are clever enough to realise that there might be data that you want to keep in the partition you're resizing and simply move it to suit.
HTH
Chris.
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