-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It is worth noting that this package also has many other useful utilities. ntfsclone, for example allows an efficient backup and restore of an ntfs partition. - -- It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and over. (History repeats itself) Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 And so it came to pass that on Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Gregory Nowak said > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. Remembering the previous discussions on this list about the > difficulty of installing gnu/linux on a drive devoted entirely to ntfs, > I thought this might be of interest to some. I recently found a package > called ntfsprogs, <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>. This consists > of a ntfs library, as well as a few ntfs tools. One of these tools is > ntfsresize, which as its name suggests, can shrink, or enlarge ntfs > file systems. Note that this tool doesn't do anything to the partition > table, it only works on the file system itself. So, in order to shrink > an ntfs partition, to make room on the drive for a linux > partition, you need to first shrink the file system, and then shrink > the partition with something like parted, and all of this is described > in the ntfsresize man page. > > I haven't had to shrink a ntfs file system, but I have needed recently > to enlarge a file system to take up all of a larger partition, which > is what prompted me to look for such a tool in the first place, and > ntfsresize enlarged the file system flawlessly, your mileage may very > of course. > > So, while creating room on a hard disk fully occupied by an ntfs > partition is still not a snap, it is nevertheless possible to do. Hope > this is of some use to someone. > > Greg > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFC79FU7s9z/XlyUyARAvwzAJ9d5S7ObLfZ/CyE6h4AIsieeYvm5ACgiFiQ > QSppjH0yYaboLHtKmexQx0w= > =zqsb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFC8FimJ6dqn0mqPbARAm4lAKCZpJWTbFFU5/70SXe4upQklP+dIgCgmxJZ 9B6zHsLkqFCCUiUWzCzpIQM= =CtC7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
