[olug] Parted resize HFS+ partition success

[Christopher R. White]

I have personally had luck using Parted or QTParted under Knoppix to 
safely resize NTFS partitions.  My personal steps are to run chkdisk, 
defrag, turn off page file, reboot to Knoppix then run QTParted.  You 
get a nice graphical representation of all HDs in the system and you can 
mess with all of them w/o fear (until you save changes that is).  I've 
used QTParted many times on many systems and had no data loss.  Even 
better is that it now will move files on the disk to free up contiguous 
space thereby eliminating previous problems I'd faced with Windows 
defrag program!

Hope this helps

Chris from Kearney

Daniel Linder wrote:

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>>This is Chris from Kearney - I came to the InstallFest and left somewhat
>>empty handed.
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>Hey, glad to have ya on.  That's the wonderfull thing about mailing lists,
>you can pick minds from across the world ... if you can speak their
>language.  (My wife grew up in Kearney and her youngest brother and family
>live there so we get back every once in a while.)
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>>Just thought I should share with all of you I managed to successfully
>>resize my HFS+ partition using parted.  [snip -- Dan]
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>Congrats -- editing/resizing partitions is no small feat.
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>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?
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>Dan
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