Hi Champs,

Help me out. I am planning to setup openSUSE 11 in my hp pavilion laptop. thing is I am having 1 NTFS partition where windows VISTA is installed. And one recovery partition.

Is it possible to Resize NTFS partition without corrupting it? If I can how can I do it?

Guys please help me out in this.

Jay

If you have installed Windows only, Partition Magic will work for you.
For Linux - parted.

If your partitions aren't very full, you can make images of them as gzipped or bzipped archive pieces with the partman tool, and burn those to optical storage. That way if you really screw disk, you can restore the image files and get back to exactly what you had before.

The best way to take care of a NTFS partition is to reformat to something else, like ext3, otherwise gparted is your best friend for a resize. Resizing takes a lot of time, and if interrupted will _always_ screw data, so make sure there are no power interruptions while your machine is working. Having a backup of the partition (as recommended above) is just piece of mind you cannot do without if there is anything you treasure on disk.

Hay champs,
Thanks a lot.

Will the installer of openSUSE do it automatically? I was searching on it. http://en.opensuse.org/Installation/...g_up_your_disk

Will it work on NTFS?



Let me know.

Regards
Jay

I've never used OpenSuse, but I've used the resizing facilities on other distros and they've all been OK. So, yes, it should be safe to use.

I recommend using the PartedMagic LiveCD from here - http://partedmagic.com/wiki/PartedMa...agic.Downloads

The advantage is that it will run in RAM, and doesn't mount hard drive. It has full FAT16/FAT32/NTFS support. I've used it to prepare Windows 2000 & XP machines for installing Linux, and had no problems.

Last week I upgraded a Win 2K Pro box with a new hard drive, and use PM to mirror the NTFS partitions from the old drive on to the new and it booted straight away. The client was very impressed at how fast it was!