[olug] SuSE 9.0 install, Large HD resize issue

[Jon H. Larsen]

On Thursday 11 March 2004 09:43, Collard, John wrote:
> I am attempting to install SuSE in order to Dual boot XP and SuSE on my
> laptop.  The 20G HD is partitioned totally as NTFS.  I have about 7G used
> in the NTFS partition.  Yast won't resize any more than 800Meg to a Linux
> Partition -- I want it to have all 13G.  Is this the 1024 Cylinder issue? 
> How do I get around it?
>
> John

You'll probably have to use Partition Magic 8 (support for XP partition types) 
to resize the drive.  You might be able to use 'qtparted' on a Knoppix 
bootable CD to resize the partition on the laptop, but remember that the NTFS 
module in linux is experimental and should only be used as READ-ONLY.  

Let me know if you don't have access to PM8, I can probably help you out.

Jon L.


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