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dredd
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 Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 8:16 am Post subject: partition resizing (Reriser/NTFS) |
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Hi
I have a dualboot system on my notebook with the following partition table:
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 2788 5168 18000360 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 * 1 9 68008+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 10 76 506520 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 77 2787 20495160 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 77 917 6357928+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 918 2787 14137168+ 83 Linux
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I now would like to resize my linux home partiton (hda6), I want to make it smaller, so I can create another windows partition.
My question is, can I use Acronis Partition Expert (Windows programm) or Partition Expert to do this? Acronis at least shows me all partitions, even it knows which of them are Reiser.
I also have a little server here, I could make a full backup of my System too (even though I don't know which way would be easiest to do so).
Hope anybody has made some experience, maybe with acronis?
thanks
phil
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Helena
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Joined: 02 Apr 2003
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Location: Den Dolder, The Netherlands
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 10:09 am Post subject: Re: partition resizing (Reriser/NTFS) |
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| dredd wrote: | Hi
I have a dualboot system on my notebook with the following partition table:
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 2788 5168 18000360 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 * 1 9 68008+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 10 76 506520 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 77 2787 20495160 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 77 917 6357928+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 918 2787 14137168+ 83 Linux
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I now would like to resize my linux home partiton (hda6), I want to make it smaller, so I can create another windows partition.
My question is, can I use Acronis Partition Expert (Windows programm) or Partition Expert to do this? Acronis at least shows me all partitions, even it knows which of them are Reiser.
I also have a little server here, I could make a full backup of my System too (even though I don't know which way would be easiest to do so).
Hope anybody has made some experience, maybe with acronis?
thanks
phil
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Phil:
I have been using Powerquest's ParttitonMagic (PM) for several years to my great satisfaction, including managing dual-boot disks. However, I must add that I recently ran into trouble with one of my own dual-boot configs. PM was unable to complete the resize of an NTFS partition, and I had to repair it with chkdsk. This happened repeatedly. On one occasion the drive had even disappeared from "My Computer", however this was easily repaired from within Windows.
Alhough I would have recommended PM without comment a while ago, I must now add some cautiousness to that. Also, PM doesn't support ReiserFS. I have no experience with other tools. |
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Earthwings
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 10:13 am Post subject: |
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qtparted is another possibility that works with Gentoo (emerge qtparted). But the Acronis one should be fine, too.
Btw, you should run cfdisk and remove the bootable flag from /dev/hda2. There can only be one partition marked bootable per disk.
Backups are a good idea. There are some threads about it here in the forums. |
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