[NTLUG:Discuss] Assistance with Dual boot Win2000 and Ubuntu, external wifi card

[Rick Cook]

Russ,

Your Knoppix CD should have qparted on it as well.

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 20:00:43 Russ wrote:
> Thanks David for your advice.  It's much appreciated!
>
> First of all, I don't know why I called my ThinkPad a ThinkBook except
> that my wife is going on and on about getting an Apple computer.
> I've gone to one of those sites you mentioned
> (http://weblogs.asp.net/kdente/archive/2006/01/07/434789.aspx ) and
> put in my Knoppix CD to find ntfsresize.  I have found it but find the
> command non-responsive.  I may not be activating it correctly.  I'll
> try command line next, instead of the GUI.  And I'll get out to
> sourceforge to look for that qparted CD.  I'll likely buy it and have
> it shipped since I have a poor, and inconsistent, link to the Internet
> where I'm at.
>
> Russ
>
> On 6/6/07, David Stanaway <david at stanaway.net> wrote:
> > Check out gparted on sourceforge. They have a live cd.
> >
> > Of course, there is always some risk with the partition resize, so you
> > should look through and assess what you might lose if you fry the
> > filesystem and make sure you have an adequate backup first.
> >
> > I have successfully used gparted to -grow- NTFS partions with now
> > problem whatsoever (Provided the disk wasn't converted to a 'dynamic
> > (POS)- disk'.
> >
> > It shrinks also, but I haven't really used that much, but the tool does
> > work.
>
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