On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:05:54PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 04:36:51PM -0400, ebenoit wrote:
Carl is it possible to do this:
I have a 100gb hd the whole hd is an ntfs file system, however I only
have 46gb of information I want to save ....could I shrink the partition
size with out loosing any of the 46gb data and then change the other
54gb to a an LVM ext3 partition, so that I can copy the 46gb of data to
the new 54gb linux partition.
Yes. You should defragment the NTFS partition before running ntfsresize,
and of course back up anything irreplaceable.
Addendum: leave some slack in the NTFS partition if you ever want to boot
Windows again. I personally would leave at least five gig free, unless you
plan to copy a horde of music files off it, then immediately delete them
from Windows.
Even then I'd leave a couple of gig for temp files and swap.