[olug] Parted resize HFS+ partition success

[Mario Steele]

Daniel Linder wrote:

>Congrats -- editing/resizing partitions is no small feat.
>
>Since Chris has had luck with HFS+, has anyone used the parted to resize a
>WinXP NTFS partition?  My wifes Athlon XP64 3000 really needs a small
>Linux x86-64 install on it but I don't want to have to go through the
>backup/fdisk/restore process.  (I *will* do the
>backup/parted/cross-fingers process nomatter what anyone says!)  Any
>experts want to chime in?
>  
>
I have had double success at resizing a WinXP NTFS Partion, and getting 
Linux installed.  This was back when I was messing around with SuSE 
Linux 9.2.  The first time around, I did a partion, without defragging, 
or scan-disking, and surprisingly retained all of my Data.  (Stupid 
Mario Stupid!)  I wouldn't suggest that though.  I'd suggest running 
Defrag a good 3 or 4 times, since in most cases, defrag doesn't move all 
data around like it's suppose to.  The actual steps I would recomend, is 
Turn off Swap in Windows XP FIRST, then reboot your computer, run defrag 
x 3, run scan disk, then boot into your Favoriate Linux Distro, and 
resize your partion.  I would recomend SuSE, or Fedora Core, as these 
two have had the most luck with getting partion resizing working. 
(Though, I haven't tried many other Distros)  Just my successful 
experince with Re-sizing a NTFS Partion.

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