On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 22:35 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 14:20 +0300, Rami Rosen wrote: > > "Similarly to other command line filesystem resizers, ntfsresize > > doesn’t manipulate the size of the partitions, hence to do that you > > must use a disk partitioning tool as well, for example fdisk(8)." > > Which is what gparted does for you: Arrange file system and partition > resizing, in the right order. It's a front end for the various command > that you could issue manually. > > I still wonder if anybody's compared speeds to using Windows to defrag > itself first, versus letting gparted take care of the whole thing. > Here, Windows 2000 spent several hours defragging a four gig hard drive > before I had at it with gparted to do the resizing (I didn't find the > note about not needing to defrag until it was too late, despite looking > for comments about defragging beforehand). ---- dd is just the tool for replicating fragmented WinNT drives too...you probably missed an opportunity. Then again, a 4 Gb HD doesn't leave much space if your going to share Win2K with Linux. I was there with my Sony C1X, Win2K bit the dust, defrag problem easily solved. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
