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On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 17:16:11 -0500 alaric at angeldustrial.com wrote: > Hi everyone! I have been looking at dual booting my notebook with > Fedora and XP (it has XP home on it now) and have been reading up on > how to do this and just wanted to verify something, now Disk Druid > will create partitions if there is space available but not resize my > existing NTFS partition? I need to find a third party software to > resize my NTFS like partition magic or some such. Also, to be able to > read and write files between the two I need to partition a section of > the HD with fat32 since Linux at this time is read only on NTFS. > Did I get my facts right? I want to be clear on this before I, > er > take the plunge as it were! Thanks in advance! qtparted will resize your NTFS partition. I specifically checked this in one of the computer labs at Northeastern. I booted a Knoppix 3.3 CD, and shrank the Windows XP NTFS partition. I generally have a few copies with me. If you are near Northeastern/Boston on Tuesday nights or Burlington on Wednesday nights I can give you a copy. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20040404/3d071352/attachment.sig>
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