partition magic tool

[Vu Pham]

On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 20:29 +1000, James McDonald wrote:
[...] 
> I recently shrank my XP laptops partition to allow installation of Ubuntu.
> 
> Using ntfsresize and fdisk worked fine. Something similar to the error 
> you are getting above happened to me the first time I ran ntfsresize 
> because although it suggest I could shrink it to Xmb when I ran it with 
> the -n (not really) option it couldn't actually do it in real life. I 
> added about 2 GB to the amount it suggested (you get the suggested size 
> by running ntfsresize --info /dev/hdaX) and it was fine.
> Here are my "as it happened" notes
> http://www.jamesmcdonald.id.au/files/faqs/mine/shrinkingNTFStoInstallLinux/shrinkingNTFStoInstallLinux.txt
> 
> I presume gparted etc are actually doing it all for you so it's probably 
> better / easier to use that.

Thanks, James. Although I was so good :) to eagerly delete the Windows
partition and install the whole notebook ( not mine ) with Suse but I am
sure your note will be helpful when I resize the ntfs on *my* notebook
that has some tools running only on Windows.

Vu