I need to do the opposite! Resize/shrink a xp w/3 partitions on it. What is safe. It will be reformated and reinstalled. Does it give ability to leave some of the hd open/partitioned when installing the o/s? It is on a neighbors machine that is flakey now. Flakey= cannot find the onboard lan, but linux live can and they are not at all a 'tinkererer' type, so I got stuck doing it. Can linux partitioning software safely reduce an xp partition and the data still work on it? I know it can be stopped w/o reformating when using linux only. Or will the partition then be corrupted? Remember, newly reinstalled system on at least 2 partitions. Its a dell with a system disk available. Ed/ke7feg ....Hurry up November...enough heat so far!! Did I mention, 2/23/07 the FCC dropped all cw (AKA Morse code) testing for any class of license as a ham? Just pass the written exams. --- On Sat, 9/13/08, der.hans wrote: > From: der.hans > Subject: Re: Reducing an existing Linux partition for Windows use.... > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 1:08 AM > Am 13. Sep, 2008 schwätzte Dan Lund so: > > moin moin Dan, > > > Okay, I'm pulling the pistol away from my head > now, but I'll need to > > use Windows on my desktop in order to play Spore now > that it is > > Spore looks really, really cool. The DRM crap looks really, > really evil. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/10/spore_drm_amazon_effect/ > http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/07/amazon-reviewers-clo.html > > Wow, they really got some people to post against them. > > 5 star: 3% (73) > 4 star: 2% (50) > 3 star: 0% (21) > 2 star: 2% (57) > 1 star: 90% (2,018) > > http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B000FKBCX4/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt/002-5356881-7975207?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 > > Hmm, that negative review makes it sound like they dropped > out some of the > cool features as well :(. > > > finally out. The problem is, it's a Linux box and > has been ever since > > it's purchase. > > > > I have CentOS (free RHEL clone), and what I'm > looking to do is > > throttle down the size of main partition to use it for > Windows. > > My question is, what is the easiest method to do this > nowadays? I'm > > not terribly worried about losing the MBR, since I can > boot up with CD > > and run grub to make it boot in the proper way again. > > I haven't done something like this since.. geez.. > 2001 maybe? My > > memories totally shot. > > Make sure you have free space on the partition you're > wanting to shrink, > then resize the filesystem to be smaller and then resize > the partition to > be smaller. > > Google for whatever filesystem type you have with resize > and shrink and > you should come up with step by step instructions. > > GNU parted can resize ext2, ext3, linux-swap and reiserfs > in addition to > resizing the partition. > > ciao, > > der.hans > -- > # http://www.LuftHans.com/ > http://www.ABLEconf.com/ > # ABLEconf.com - Free Software conference September 20th > in Phoenix > # C'est la Net - > der.hans--------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss