NTFS and Linux

[Tim Writer]

"Teodor Iliescu" <tiliescu-ZdyLq7YhDA8hunQcOVOuvCwD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Jim Skehill wrote:
> 
> > As I see it I have 4 options:
> > 1) Buy Partition Magic.
> > 2) Blow away the existing install of XP, repartition the hard drive, install
> > Linux, reinstall XP, etc.
> > 3) Go to a Linux Install Fest. (Does anybody know if one is coming up in the
> > Toronto area?)
> > 4) Pay someone to repartition the hard drive and install Linux. (Who offers
> > this service? How much does it cost?

[snip]

> I have searched the web, and came across ntfsresize, an open source NTFS
> re-sizer. It claims to resize NTFS partitions, which means you
> can try it out on your system. They even mentioned compatibility with XP's
> NTFS (5.1), and they said they had no destroyed filesystems:

I used ntfsresize to reduce the size of the XP partition on my Dell Inspiron
1100.  While it worked, it was unable to reduce it below about 14GB (on a
30GB disk) to the presence of "immovable" sectors.  I used Windows Defrag,
tried disableing the pager file, etc. with no improvement.  In the end, I
reinstalled.

Of course, I haven't actually used XP since then but I keep it around just in
case and because recent annecdotes suggest it's "not fun" to get a refund
from Dell.

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