Resizing NTFS fs

[Carl Parrish]

Victor Odhner wrote:

> I asked:
> > Can Linux dd + parted + other stuff move an XP system to a bigger disk,
> > and then stretch the new partition?
>
> Dale Farnsworth replied:
>
>> Here's how I have done this:
>>
>> 1. While booted on WinXP, check the NTFS FS and shutdown properly.
>>
>> 2. Boot up on a Knoppix CD.
>>
>> 3. dd the contents of the small drive to the large drive (full drive 
>> copy).
>>
>> 4. Increase the size of the NTFS partition.  I use cfdisk to delete the
>> partition and then recreate it with the new size.
>>
>> 5. Use ntfsresize to grow NTFS to fill the partition.  If you leave off
>> the size parameter, ntfsresize expands the fs to fill the partition.
>>
>> 6. Boot WinXP on the new disk, it will auto-check the disk while 
>> coming up.
>>  
>>
> First of all Dale, thanks for filling in the subject line for me.  
> (blush)
> And thanks to the others who responded.
>
> Question about #4 and #5:  The way I read this is that the "d" command in
> cfdisk will delete the partition and merge it with adjacent free 
> space; then
> "n" will make the old partition valid but with a new partition size 
> ... but the
> NTFS filesystem will still be its original size.  So using ntfsresize 
> fixes the
> filesystem to fill the partition.  Am I on the right track?
>
> I would first reformat the target disk with XP and look at it with cfdisk
> to note the correct geometry and partition size, so that I could get back
> to those numbers after the copy operation.
>
> Thanks, wish me luck!
>
> Vic
>
> P.S. -- Jared asked about Windows Media Player.  This guy likes to
> listen to Internet radio stations, many of which offer only the Windows
> Media Player format.  One of his few pleasures . . .
>
Are you *sure* amarok and mplayer I've been able to use them for 
whatever Internet radio stations I listen to. Course I also have 
crossover so you may want to try installing wine as well. BTW does 
anyone know how to use amarok to listen to podcasts?