[olug] Parted resize HFS+ partition success

Christopher R. White cwhite at rcom-ne.com
Mon Jul 18 20:18:02 UTC 2005


I only have experience with primary partitions.  Usually only one or two 
per disk (I think that is what you were asking).

Hurley Rod wrote:

>Did you do both Basic and Dynamic disks on NTFS partitions?  I have some
>of both that Diskpart doesn't want to extend.    
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>To: dan at linder.org; Omaha Linux User Group
>Subject: Re: [olug] Parted resize HFS+ partition success
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>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!
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>Hope this helps
>
>Chris from Kearney
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>Daniel Linder wrote:
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>>>This is Chris from Kearney - I came to the InstallFest and left 
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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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