Is there any way to shrink an existing NTFS partition?
Midnight in the Partition of Good and Evil
Is there any way to shrink an existing NTFS partition?
Delete and create a new one
I do not recommend Partition Magic for resizing NTFS volumes - both times I have tried, it has trashed up the HD it was working on, and only once I was able to recover the previous partition table and get the data back, the other time ended up with a good as empty disk.
Damn. I really don't want to burn 10 GB of backups to CD...
I've resized an NTFS partition with Partition Magic, it worked fine. I'm hesitant about doing it though, and I wouldn't have even tried if I'd had anything important on my windows partition. Defragging your HD first should help make sure it works, in theory, though NTFS filesystems are a bit more complicated than others and I'm not quite sure how much fragmentation would matter. So much stuff can go wrong though. It took hours, and if the power had gone off in the middle or something, I would've been screwed.
No need to back up all 10GB, unless you actually have 10GB of stuff you need. Windows itself doesn't need to be backed up, or any of your programs, etc. Just all your data, documents, game savegames, etc. The vast vast majority of stuff on your computer can easily be reinstalled if you lose it, I've found. Unless you have 10GB of MP3s of songs you don't own and programs you stole from the internet, or something.
So yeah, if Windows would publish the specifications for NTFS, there'd be a hundred tools for resizing them, but it's not in MS's interests to let you know anything about your own computer they don't want you to know. Yay for Windows.
Hm, come to think of it, a great deal of that is ripped cds. Since I'm not at college anymore, I don't need THOSE. If the size of my stuff other than that isn't too bad, I'll try that.... IF I can find my XP serial, in case partition magic kills it.
Riddle me this, Batman - I'm often found on Carmen Sandiego's head, and I'm going on the freed up space. What am I?
At least you picked a good distro
They stuck it in with one of my textbooks. Since downloading isos on 56k isn't my thing, I take what I can get
So it's probably a crap old version then. Oh well.
Actually, it's a 2003 edition, so...
*checks*
Publisher's Edition Red Hat Linux 8.0, 2 discs.
Latest version is 9.0, but I don't think there's too much difference between 8 and 9.
8 beats 9, hands down. Red Hat 9 was a *major* disappointment.
As a matter of fact, 8.0 happens to be, in my opinion, the best version.
Nice deal.
What was wrong with 9? I think 8 was worse than 7, personally. The gui was worse, anyways. Wasn't 8 when they first introduced Bluecurve and started to distribute a sucky corrupted version of KDE? The auto-downloading update thing was handy though. *cough*almost as useful as gentoo's portage*cough* 8 is the last version I tried.
Bluecurve was good, but nothing worked right in RH9, therefore it sucked.
Same reason I hate Debian: It doesn't work.
Debian works nicely for me. Then again, I've never used a GUI on a Debian machine
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