[NTLUG:Discuss] Non destructive NTFS partitioning?

Terry Henderson trryhend at gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 11:39:11 CST 2004


On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 10:44:19 -0600, Justin Mercier <jrm at scripthouse.net> wrote:
> Terry Henderson wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >Anyone have a report on which Linux distros will, (or are capable of),
> >doing non destructive NTFS partitioning  during install?
> >(Re-partitioning or splitting of NTFS partition.)
> >
> >
> 
> I do believe Suse 9.x will do NTFS shrinking if this is what your
> referring to.
> 
> I have used this in the past to throw Suse on the end of the disk that
> was fully partitioned for Windows and it worked out great.
> 
> Justin
> 
> 
> 

My cousin just did it with Mandrake, so it appears that two of them do
it, maybe more?
I was told before, (as Burton says), that none will, and that you'd
need some commercial application like Partition Magic, but guess
that's not necessarily the case.



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