[ILUG] State of the Booting

[ompaul]

Michael Conry wrote:

>On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:12:06 +0000, Niall Walsh <linux at esatclear.ie> wrote:
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>>Finally, what are peoples personal recent (i.e. preferably on the latest
>>releases from $YOUR_FAV_DISTRO) experiences with ntfs and Linux?   From
>>qtaprted resizing them
>>    
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>I recently resized an ntfs partition on a windowsXP equipped laptop. 
>qtparted from the Kanotix CD worked ok-ish.  I had a 60gb hard drive,
>but qtparted would only do fairly modest reductions on the windows
>partition (say down to 40GB).  When i rebooted to windows, it did a
>check on the partition.  Then i rebooted to linux, and i could squeeze
>it down more.  Doing this a couple of times allowed me to squeeze the
>XP partition down to about 10gb.
>
>My memory could be failing on me now, but i think that on the last
>iteration qtparted would have allowed me to resize the partition down
>to something smaller than the data it held, which made no sense (i
>used 10gb instead).  I could be misremembering this, or could have
>misunderstood  the output from the program at the time.
>
>Of course the whole exercise was rendered pointless two days later
>when i attempted to do
>   mke2fs /dev/hdc6
>and instead accidentally typed
>   mke2fs /dev/hdc
>  
>
Na this was not accidential it was fate :)
The bytes were sending you messages.

Regards,

Paul