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Re: Repartioning NTFS



On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 11:12, ben wrote:
> On Monday 07 October 2002 01:17 am, Andy Saxena wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:47:36AM -0700, Michael Richardson wrote:
> > > What I'm trying to do is setup a duel-boot system that will be running my
> > > current OS (Windows XP) and Debian Woody. My problem is that my hard disk
> > > is a NTFS file system and the FIPS program they say to use in the install
> > > manual doesn't say anything about repartioning anything but FAT file
> > > systems. If anyone knows of a free disk partioner that will allow me to
> > > make another partition without destroying the files already on my system
> > > I would greatly appreciate a responce.
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > MICHAEL
> >
> > I'd suspect there's no such free software in the Linux world that will
> > repartition or resize NTFS partitions. If there were, it'd imply an
> > ability to write to NTFS partitions, which is not available as of this
> > moment.

non free programs should do the work. Partition Magic is an example. But
I am sure you knew it. That doesn't answer your question, but that
solves your problem :)

Jerome



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