[wplug] Drive Partitions

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

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On Tuesday 15 October 2002 21:09, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 @ 8:54pm (-0500), Gonffen wrote:
>
> G>  ---------------------------------------------------------------
> G> I have a windoze xp system that I would like to make dual-bootable with
> G> Linux and I was wondering if theres a way to change the drive partitions
> G> without reformating the drive so I can put both windoze and linux on the
>
> There are a handful of utils for resizing ntfs and fat32 partitions.  XP
> probably has one built in at this point.
>
> Make sure you backup your MBR and anything you care about...things can go
> wrong.
>
> -lava

Erm, I'd say that 

[0] There is no built-in utility for doing that in XP and
[1] There aren't that many tools for NTFSv5 partition resizing.

The only one I'm personally aware of is Partition Magic (version 8 or newer?), 
which by the way screwed up my partition when I tried to do exactly that 
(resize an XP partition). So, yeah, things *can* go very wrong. Complete 
backups are in order.

- -A

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