Yogi can't use fdisk for what he wants to do...he's trying to resize his existing NTFS partition, to make it smaller, so that he can install Linux on the system without losing the data he's already got. > you can aslo use "fdisk", command to make a new partition..Its very > effective and handy.. > man fdisk to more info.. > > With regards > Nirav > > > On 11/7/06, Russell Harrison <rtlm10@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Gparted even has a live cd you can download to do this. Even though the >> latest version claims that you don't even have to de-fragment the NTFS >> partition before you resize I'd still recommend doing so just to be >> safe. >> >> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ >> >> On 11/7/06, Yogi pn <yougander@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > Hi all, Currently i have a system with 1 single drive configured with >> NTFS >> > partition, 20GB free space available. I want to create an additional >> > partition with this free space for Linux. Please let me know the best >> tool >> > for partitioning without losing data on the existing drive. TIA >> > >> > Best Regards, >> > Yogi >> > -- >> > redhat-list mailing list >> > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >> > >> -- >> redhat-list mailing list >> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >> > > > > -- > Nirav Modiya > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
