On 10/19/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Madden</b> <<a href="mailto:gomadtroll@gci.net">gomadtroll@gci.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 14:33, Samuel Thurston, III wrote:<br>*snip*<br>> actually do it, and it said everything went fine... I am however, hesitant<br>> to use ntfsresize in a permanent way as it would seem to have the potential
<br>> to screw things up but good. any suggestions?<br>><br>> TIA,<br>> Sam<br><br>ntfsresize is a bit scary, you have to delete your partitions, then create new<br>ones, 'DO NOT Format' Not an intuitive scenario. That said I have resized
<br>several laptop hd's that came with XP in order to dual boot and it works<br>fine. I did this on new laptops so there was no chance of losing any data.<br>
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I guess my concern is that since qparted uses ntfsresize, why would the
command line work and the gui fail without any explanation? <br>