[ale] reducing NTFS partition

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Dow Hurst wrote:
> Well, no matter how much I run the stupid XP based defrag tool it won't
> completely defrag the system.  The ntfsresize tool can't deal with the
> end of the volume in a fragmented state.  So, will Partition Magic
> defrag correctly and resize to any size that I want the NTFS partition?

I have used partition magic to resize NTFS partitions successfully, but 
if I recall, it was after defragging via windows.  That was NT.

> 
> I have a 40Gb drive with a resized NTFS partition of 22Gb, a 32Mb
> partition for Dell's tools, a ~18Gb extended partition with ~17Gb for /
> and 1Gb for /swap.  I really wanted about 6Gb for XP and the rest for
> Linux.

Can you cut your swap down in size to provide another partition which 
you could copy your xp to, reduce the size of the xp partition and copy 
it back?

> Dow

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