[wplug] RE: Swapping OS Drives

[bgtrio at yahoo.com]

>From the NTFS-Resize FAQ:

Is it reliable?

Since July of 2002, when ntfsresize became publicly available, there were 
many success reports for both enlarging and shrinking Windows NT4, Windows 
2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 NTFS filesystems on both 
workstation and server versions (Home, Professional, Server, Advanced 
Server). No destroyed filesystem was reported who followed the 
instructions correctly. So yes, we think the code is reliable. However, 
just like in case of any kind of partition and filesystem manipulation 
involved, we strongly recommend to have a backup of your data. You have 
anyway, haven't you? We did receive reports when commercial partitioners 
corrupted or destroyed data when ntfsresize worked or refused to resize. 

-- Bryon


On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Vanco, Donald wrote:

> bgtrio at yahoo.com wrote:
> > Tangentially, there was an announcement recently on freshmeat.net for
> > new NTFS tools, including a partition resizer.  This has been a big
> > problem for curious windows users who don't want to delete their
> > installation just yet. 
> > 
> > I haven't tried it yet, but I'm sure someone out there wants to know
> > about this :)
> > 
> > Here's the project's homepage:
> > http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 	You're kidding?  It's (still) not safe to write NTFS, but you can
> resize the partitions?  I suppose there might be some block level magic that
> is beyond my knowledge, but this doesn't seem to make a lot of sense....
> 
> Don
> 
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