How to resize 60-gig ntfs partition to install dual-boot Linux?

[Josh Coffman]

--- Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 16:54 -0700, Josef Lowder
> wrote:
> > I'm trying to install Mandriva into a dual boot
> setup on a new HP laptop 
> > on which win-xp has taken the entire 60-gig drive
> and won't allow resizing. 
> > Is there some way around this? 
> > 
> > I see: 
> > ntfs resize failed 
> > ntfs resize v1.11.2 
> > NTFS volume version 3.1 
> > current volume size 60,003,381760 bytes - 60004 MB
> 
> > followed by a long list of incremental
> percentages. 
> > 
> > If possible, I'd like to avoid reformatting the
> entire hard drive 
> > and deleting XP entirely. 
> ----
> you might want to defragment the partition first to
> make sure that there
> isn't data spread out all over and try again.
> 
> Craig
> 

Definitely defrag and backup. I have a pavilion zv5000
with a 60 gig that I'm dual booting. (Mostly avoid
windows though) Anyway, I ended up wiping it and
installing windows on about 20 gig, a FAT partition on
20 gig that I mount in both win and fedora, and the
rest (about 16 gig) for fedora.

works well. I'd actually ditch windows if I could and
just boot fedora with a 10 gig root partition and the
rest for /home and /swap.

Oh, and let me know if you need help with your wifi
(I'm guessing its broadcom like mine).

-j

Shin zen ni rei
-j
Registered Linux user number 403109
  http://counter.li.org/
  



		
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