3lade Posted January 9, 2003 Report Share Posted January 9, 2003 Can you re-size drives without damaging your install? Stupid question I'm sure but I think last time I tried Linux throw a wobbly. A senario: Just say I was drunk one night and decided to do the unthinkable of loading Party Magic and 'accidentally' wiped a NTFS or FAT32 section and then heaven forbid converted free space to Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted January 9, 2003 Report Share Posted January 9, 2003 Re-sizing wil almost always damage your data. It is HIGH risk, so backup first. FAT32 partitions seem to have no problems with being re-partitioned but journalised file systems will probably give you the finger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted January 9, 2003 Report Share Posted January 9, 2003 it's very hard to do...if you have partition magic that will usually resize drives "safely", but Linux will go wacko because the partitions will no longer exist in the form it has set. so...i don't know a safe way of doing it myself, is what i'm saying. so i probably should've just not bothered posting. hey, if you installed Linux drunk, that only goes to show how easy it is to install! though i don't think that would go over well as a motto.... "Linux, so easy to install, you can do it wasted!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted January 9, 2003 Report Share Posted January 9, 2003 If your intent is to get rid of Windows or downsize it, then you should use a Windows partitioning tool. Partition Magic is a reasonable choice but you can download the Ranish Partition Manager from http://www.ranish.com for free. Ranish will also handle Linux partitions and if you are not uncomfortable working with numbers, Linux fdsk, cfdisk or sfdisk will work well for moving and expanding you Linux partitions. Note that neither Disk Druid (Red Hat) or Diskdrake can move and expand partitions. Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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