Sorry I can't really answer your question about this because I "nuked"
(reformatted) the whole system and just started over with a fresh install
of Linux to avoid wasting any more time on this frustrating problem.
Like you said, everything about M$ is "too much spooky and secret crap."
> Hiya,
>
> Ya, I'm late to this party, I have one question.
>
> I noticed in the screen capture;
> http://upquick.com/linux/xpdiskmgmt.jpg
> that ALL the toolbar buttons are grayed out.
> New, Delete, Resize/Move, Copy, Paste, Undo, and Apply
> None will work as shown there.
>
> I think this is because the SELECTED item is multiple partitions.
> "Selected" is indicated by the blue-surround highlighting.
> I'm wondering how it got that way?
>
> I'm pretty sure gparted would resize the NTFS partition for you,
> And open up a new unallocated space between sda5 and sda6.
>
> It seems weird that your system isn't using primary partitions. That
> is,
> sda1 is just a lable containing logical partitions. The first
> partition containing usable data is sda5. The prior 7.8Mb unallocated
> makes me wonder if MS has done "something" to hide it's bootloader...
> Too late now.
>
> I had the hardest time reconciling these two:
> Windoze display (from diskpart.exe):
> http://upquick.com/linux/xpdiskmgmt.jpg
> The gparted display:
> http://upquick.com/linux/gparted1.png
>
> The gparted display has more info. The Windoze DM shows all three
> Linux partitions, swap, /home, and /, but not the unallocated space at the
> drive
> begining.
>
> Personally I've given up on M$ products entirely. Too much spooky and
> secret crap.
>
> (-: Chas.M. :-)
>
>> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 02:00:18 -0600
>> Subject: How to shrink a windows partition to make more room for Linux?
>> From: joe@actionline.com
>> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>>
>>
>> How can I shrink the ntfs file system /dev/sda5 shown in the following
>> screen capture:
>>
>> - - - http://upquick.com/linux/gparted1.png - - -
>>
>> to make room to increase the size of my Linux home partition /dev/sda8 ?
>>
>> I've used ntfsresize to reduce the size of the sda5 partition from 158
>> gig
>> to 67 gig, but gparted will not allow me to shrink (resize) sda5. The
>> "Resize/Move" option in gparted is grayed out as shown in the screen
>> capture.
>>
>> So what else can I do to shrink sda5?
>>
>>
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