On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 19:38 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2009 18:08:55 Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:55:05AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > Netbook has arrived (yeah!) > > > > > > If I boot F10 Live CD, does it have necessary parted/gparted to shrink > > > the NTFS partition to make room for F10 or do I have to use like a > > > gparted-live CD for that? > > > > No need for a separate parted/gparted with Fedora. The installer has > > a built-in resizing spinner for NTFS file systems, built on the same > > modern NTFS utilities, so you can just resize it down and continue > > partitioning. The resizing and partition writing gets done after > > you've set things up the way you like. > > I'm not saying anything against gparted or any other such tool, but my natural > caution says use a windows tool to do the windows bit and a linux tool to do > the linux stuff. That method has never let me down :-) ---- I think I stopped buying updates to Partition Magic at version 8 but regardless... parted/gparted is a terrific open source application and I trust it implicitly. Worse yet, if you run with a proprietary application and it somehow does fail, they just say oops and you contribute little to the community. If I have problems with the open source tools, I can give feedback with the hope that I contribute to the knowledge and code base. Myself, I have little usage for dual-boot and probably should just nuke the Windows but it's a big disk - unlike the Sony PictureBook C1x that it's replacing where I did nuke the Windows partition ultimately to make all 4 GB of the disk available to Linux. All-in-all though, I got a lot of miles out of the Sony PictureBook which at the time, was a very expensive little guy. Curious note from today...apparently the Acer Aspire netbooks are significantly changing the map... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/14/apples_share_of_us_pc_market_slips_to_8_at_hands_of_acer.html and apparently it's possible to install Mac OS X on the thing... http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10142638-37.html not that I have any interest in that. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
