On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:09:24 -0400, Samuel Winchenbach wrote:

> Has anyone here used ntfsresize? I have an NTFS system that I want to dual
> boot with Slacky.

Haven't used it, sorry...

>
> Here is a link to a site with a CD:
> http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/....html#reliable
>
> Also, if you can offer better alternatives (and no... completely formatting
> the hard drive is not an option) I would love to hear them. Thanks in
> advance,

I've used Ghost for something like this, and it works perfectly...But
you'd need either an additional hard drive or network drive to temporarily
store an image of the existing hard drive...
Basically, what I've done is use ghost to dump an image of the hard drive
to storage somewhere. Then re-ghost from that image to the original hard
drive, but resize the partition that is being ghosted to. By default
ghost will want to create a partition of the same size the image was
created from, but allows you to easily choose a different size, leaving
the rest of the disk free ( or expanding the size of the partition if you
happen to be going to a bigger drive ).

My guess is that there are other tools that will do this as well, but will
also require somewhere for you to store the image temporarily.

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- Matt -