Andrew Biggadike wrote:
I have a laptop that's dual booting Windows 2000 and Debian (woody), and I want to resize my partitions so I can give some of the space on the Windows partition to Debian's /. Does anyone have any recommendationsas to the best way to go about doing this? If I use a Windows tool, such as PartitionMagic, is it true that I won'thave to modify anything within Linux in order for it to function properly? If not, what would I need to do? If I wanted to do it from Linux, how would I go about doing it? I guess the main thing, obviously, is that I don't want to break anything; I'd just like some more room to play with on this end. I've cleaned up and defragmented the Windows partition. Links to HOWTOs and other helpful documentation should be sufficient. Thanks, Andrew Oh, and in case it matters: hda1 FAT32 16861.83 hda2 Linux ext2 /boot 49.36 hda3 Linux ext2 / 2558.07 hda5 Linux swap 534.65
I am in this situation with the exception that my Windows 2000 partition is NTFS so I assumed off the bat that there wouldn't be a linux solution. I've resized by NTFS partition twice. My method was to just shrink the NTFS to create free space and then use nparted in linux to actually create the new partitions. I used Partition Magic. When you open it up, it(at least for me) will claim that the partition table has 'errors' and offer to fix them. You pretty much don't have a choice if you want to use the program so go along. In the process of fixing the errors, it will randomly renumber the partitions at which point you may or may not be able to boot into linux. Finish resizing the windows partition and try to reboot into linux(you may get lucky). If not boot from a rescue CD and fix /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo at which point you shouldn't have any problems... Though you may have significantly more options since your windows partition isn't NTFS...
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