NtfsResize?
Trying to free space in my Windows XP thats formatted in NTFS to install Linux. I supposely have 200Gigs and running a NVDIA Geforce 7900 GTX with a Pentium 4 and Dual 512mb ram
Ok I read the instructions about 5 times already still don't get it! (kinda new to the Linux scene) This is what I did, I downloaded the latest G-Parted Live CD 0.2.5-2 ran it etc, etc, told it to run in full X server and got an error, got send to native Linux, so I said F it ill do it here: Code:
ntfsresize -n -s 80G /dev/sda1 : ok the simulations worked Code:
ntfsresize -s 80G /dev/sda1 : it worked then the instructions told me to do this: Code:
dd if=dev/sda of =sda.mbr bs=512 count=1 well I did this in G-Parted I just replaced the hda with sda (wheres my memory is stored) because in the instructions the memory is stored in hda Code:
sfdisk -d /dev/sda > sda.pt I had to download Knoppix to do this because for some reason G-Parted live didn't have fdisk or cfdisk in it ok after this whats next? What do I do? Did I do anything wrong? becuase Slackware for some reason still can't detect any free space :/ O yeah I ran G-Parted in mini X server after partitioning Windows XP and it didn't let me partition my drive and it looked like my sda now consumes 80 gigs than having 80 gigs of unallocated space |
The knoppix cd should have a nice gui partitioning tool called qtparted . You will probably need to un-mount things first. The command: ( umount -a ) should do it.
If you still want to do it from the command line, here are my notes... The command umount -a is still good. Code:
When decreasing the size of a partition, do the file system first. This is true for Windows or Linux partitions. |
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# Run the fdisk utility to resize the partition. could u show me the steps I gotta take or put in fdisk to do this?:scratch: |
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