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post #1 of 7
3/8/05 at 11:39am
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looking for a free partition manager to dual boot linux and everything i find is through dos... and i dont have a floppy drive... is it possible to copy the data that should be on the floppy to a cd and run off a cd through dos? or are there any free partition managers that run through windows like partition magic... but free...
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post #2 of 7
3/8/05 at 2:09pm
A lot of Linux distributions try to take care of this at install time. Though I always here of issues here and there... I've never had a problem where an install of Linux didn't resize an NTFS reasonably and set up a dual boot. YMMV of course. For example, I just got done reloading my old laptop for my daughter. It's a Toshiba 3000-S304. I put the Toshiba WinXP Pro on first (Tosh recovery disks use the whole disk), then installed SUSE 9.2, it resized the NTFS area (basically half and half on a 20G HD), installed fine and grub (the boot loader) had a Windows entry in it and it all worked just fine.
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post #3 of 7
3/8/05 at 3:51pm
If you are resizing ANY partition, make sure you defrag it first, not so much a problem on fresh installs because it hasnt had a chance to get fragmented, but it can be a problem, especially I would imagine on NTFS which Linux doesnt fully support(One of the few).

Seablade
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post #4 of 7
3/8/05 at 6:16pm
I haven't seen the "better defrag first" issue... here's some more info on what SUSE uses:
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
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post #5 of 7
3/8/05 at 8:21pm
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well i was planning on creating a seperate Fat 32 partition for just my mp3's so i could use them while in linux... and then a third for the linux... any ideas?
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post #6 of 7
3/9/05 at 10:53pm
you don't need a FAT32 partition to do something read-only in linux. Linux can read NTFS partitions fine, it just can't write to them
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post #7 of 7
3/10/05 at 1:29am
just make 2 partitions:
hda1 (ntfs) and hda2(ext3) and you're GOOD!
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