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Re: ntfsresize



On Mon Jan 12, 2004 at 11:39:44PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote:
> * Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org> [2004-01-12 07:15]:
> | Hi,
> | 
> | Is there any plan for supporting NTFS resize?
> | 
> | There is already parted in debian-installer component, but parted
> | can't handle NTFS.
> | 
> | I heard 'ntfsresize' in ntfstools can handle NTFS (includes Windows XP).
> | IMHO it's nice for users to support NTFS resize without any special doing.
> 
> how stable, data-safe (!) is this tool? If we support such a tool we
> must be sure, that it will not destroy any data on the ntfs partitions.

I can speak for how stable, and data-safe it is in general, but I
have used it to sucessfully shrink the w2k ntfs partition on my
laptop, which let me install Linux.  Windoz was happy with the
result, so I can at least give it an "it worked for me" award,

 -Erik

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