On Freitag, 15. August 2003 23:23, François TOURDE wrote: > Le 12279ième jour après Epoch, > > Bilal Ahmad écrivait: > > I have bought recently a HP Pavilion ze5300 laptop w/ a 40G hard drive > > (38G actually), and with Windows XP Pro. I want to partition the hard > > drive so that I leave 18G for XP Pro and 20G for Debian. Windows Disk > > Defragmenter leaves a chunk of files right in the middle of the disk: > > > > > > /////*****************_________________*****_____________________________ > >_______ > > > > > > > > /// ---- System files > > *** ---- Contiguous files > > ___ ---- Free space > > some solutions: > > 1) Remove Windows XP... Using this technique, you can be sure that no more > windows problem will occur... :) It's my prefered one ... > > 2) Use the first free space for /usr and / and swap ... Whatever everything > from GNU/Linux that can fit on this space > > 3) Use partition magic. This software is able to move some 'fixed' > partitions. Question: did anyone try to use qtparted from a Knoppix CD yet to resize an NTFS partition (with ntfsresize as the backend) ? Ralf > > 4) Ask for your vendor the original installation disks... They must have > these disks... > > 5) Remove Windows XP... Did I say that before ?... > > -- > Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything > else follows in the same way. > -- Alan J. Perlis -- We're not a company, we just produce better code at less costs. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralf Nolden nolden@kde.org The K Desktop Environment The KDevelop Project http://www.kde.org http://www.kdevelop.org
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