Repartioning NTFS File System

[Collins Richey]

mtfsresize or qtparted are fine, just be sure you have a restorable
backup of the Windows stuff before you start. Whatever the tool,
here's what you do effectiviely:

1. Determine how much shrinkage the partition will bear. WinXP usually
plops an unmovable swap file right in the middle of the partition, so
you only get about half the original space freed. Sometimes you can
remove the WinXP swap partition (put it back later), but I haven't had
good results with this.

2. Shrink the partition. This marks the ntfs partition as needing fsck
(or whatever the Windows term is) next time you boot WinXP, so don't
be surprised if the boot is slow.

3. Remove the ntfs partition and add it back with the new size. Be
sure you get the numbers right!!!!!!

4. Now you can add new partitions for Linux. Since you are dual
booting, I recommend adding a small FAT32 partition that can be
written either from WinXP or Linux. Linux doesn't really have usable
write support for ntfs.

Enjoy,

-- 
 Collins
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