Hi All,

I have a 60GB harddrive, which is parted about 50GB for winXP and the rest is for openSUSE 10.2. I just found that 10GB for LINUX is not enough for me, because I just realized that LINUX is more interesting and challenging than Windows. How could I resize the winXP partition (NTFS) and give it to LINUX? Is Partition Magic good enough to do the operation? Thanks in advance.

If you do not want to reload Linux, consider buying a copy of "Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0" for about $50 (www.acronis.com). It can be loaded on your Windows Partition and can create a boot disk that can resize and move partitions around for you or it can be done while running Windows. It does not run in Linux, but it supports most Linux and Windows partitions including FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP. You can of course just elect to reload Linux which can resize the Windows Partition down and give more room for Linux. I have found that 20 gig is a better choice than 10 and 30 gig if you can afford it.

Thank You,

Partition Magic will work OK. Shrink the XP partition first, the move the Linux partition down and resize it to fill the space.

I resized an NTFS partition for Win2K last week using GParted and it worked fine. Thats a very usfull tool for Linux as it comes on a Live CD, so you can use it as a rescue disk. Plus its free!

Thanks for the advice. I'll try em.