Mandriva resizing NTFS

Carroarmato0 · 12-20-2005, 02:30 PM

I've tried using all kinds of partition managers but they were all demos.

I don't really trust Mandriva 2006 resizing my NTfs partition because of past bad experiences.

Is Mandriva 2006 safe or do I still need to buy a partition manager?

linmix · 12-20-2005, 04:54 PM

If you have NTFS partitions you'll also have windows Xp installed. It has a command line tool (!!) for resizing partitions. I don't remember the exact name and can't look it up right now, but it's something like PartDisk. Boot into XP and press F1 for help and do a query...

There's also ntfsresize to have a look at

Padma · 12-21-2005, 01:58 PM

IIRC, ntfsresize is used by virtually all Linux-based partition tools ...

linmix · 12-22-2005, 02:02 AM

Checked up: the XP tool is called DiskPart and works much the same as parted.

igu · 01-05-2006, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by linmix

Checked up: the XP tool is called DiskPart and works much the same as parted.

Hardly. DiskPart is quite limited. It can only extend partitions non-destructively and also in very limited cases: only dynamic disc (very rare), non-system and non-boot partitions, etc. Microsoft can't shrink NTFS partitions at all, only Linux and some commercial software can do it.

linmix · 01-05-2006, 03:13 PM

I did a non-destructive ntfs resize on an XP partition to make space for a linux install and it worked fine.