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During installation I was unable to shrink my Windows partition below 30 GB. However that should be fixed now, and I'd like to shrink it more. But I can't figure ...
  1. 08-31-2005 #1
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    Resizing ntfs partition, post-install

    During installation I was unable to shrink my Windows partition below 30 GB. However that should be fixed now, and I'd like to shrink it more. But I can't figure out how... Parted says it doesn't support ntfs, and there's no package for qtparted or ntfsresize. How can I do it?
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    For some reason this link isn't working at the moment, but just a couple of days ago I downloaded ntfsresizer to a floppy and used it successfully from that. Of course, you can download it to your Linux partition as well. It's a Linux application, so it needs to be run from Linux.
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    NTFSprogs is supposed to be able to do the same thing. It should go without saying, make sure you're backed up.
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    Thanks, ntfsprogs was the package I needed. So now I've shrunken the ntfs, but not the partition itself. Parted still says it can't do it, which suprises me because it doesn't have to change the filesystem. So how do I resize the partition?
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    I used fdisk, as recommended in the ntfsresizer link. Leave the starting block of the ntfs partition where it is and make sure the re-sized partition is at least as large as the re-sized ntfs filesystem (what else?). The actual numbers of bytes from one step to another seem to be inconsistent due to how they are counted, so be safe.
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    I typed (as root): fdisk /dev/hda
    then 'm' for help
    It gave a list of commands, but I didn't see one to resize. Did I do something wrong?
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    No, you haven't missed anything. To change the size, you must first delete the ntfs partition and then create a new partition, starting at the same block but ending sooner. Before you delete anything, press 'p' to print to screen the current table and make a note of everything so you'll know exactly what to enter for the new ntfs partition. Be sure that you set the type to the same as it is at first. And remember, nothing will change until you write the changes, so if you lose confidence, you can quit safely with no change made.
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    so with ntfsresize I can shrink my ntfs partition and repartition the extra space to /ext3 ?
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