On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 16:17 +0300, Mark Ryden wrote: > Hello, > I have a new Lenovo laptop with Windows Vista on it. I want to install Linux > on it while keeping vista on it (though I rarely intend to use Vista, > keeping vista is a MUST for me). So I want it to be dual boot. There is > one partition on the disk, with 160GB. I consider using gparted livecd for it. > In fact, I did not used the > There is a way to Windows Vista except booting once into the system, so most of > the disk is free. > I know how to use the resize feature of gparted. I intend to resize > the partition > to 20 GB and then create a new parition in the free space which will be > created. On the new paritition I intend to install the Linux. > My questions are: > 1) Is it safe to do resizing with gparted ? > 2) I saw in the web in some post : > run: > #ntfsfix -V > and then: > if you don't see version 2 don't use this version of gparted on Vista > NTFS volumes > > 3) This can be done also by ntfsresize, thus: > ntfsresize -s 20G /dev/sda1 > > Is ntfsresize -s 20G any better ? safer? or is it in fact the same > (but not from > the GUI)? > > Regards, > Mark Ryden > You probably want to defrag the disk first, -- ======================================================================= An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. -- Karl Kraus ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
