Resizing a Partition?
Can i resize my Widows XP NTFS partition, and make the unallocated space FAT, and Linux will still boot okay? or do i have to do a clean install?
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Hi Hitman
We need more information - ie your current partition setup - Are you currently dual booting etc - however : In general - it is possible to resize NTFS with a variety of tools - but beware - always defrag first then back up your files just in case of problems. Again - we need more info to make suggestions. |
"Linux will still boot okay?"
You will have introduced another partition on the disk and perhaps reordered the partitions. You will have to change /etc/fstab and your bootloader to reflect the new partition scheme. "do i have to do a clean install?" No. Changing /etc/fstab and either lilo or grub is sufficient. |
im sorry aboout that, yes i already dual boot
/etc/fstab /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda3 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win ntfs auto,ro,umask=002 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 wanted to resize hda2, with that unallocated space make it FAT so that both linux and windows could write and read it. but i was thinking that would throw off linux and everything. are there any steps, you can point me too? |
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