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11-25-2008

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Resizing and repartitioning NTFS with gParted?

Sorry that this is slightly OT, but in my defence, I intend to install Linux (and probably others).

I just bought a new computer with Windows Vista preinstalled; and though there is no love between me and MS, I would like to keep it (I paid for it after all). I have 2 x 500GB HDD. The extra disk has one large NTFS partition, but as it's empthy, so I can handle that one. The main disk however, has one large partition (455GB) with Vista, and one small partition ("Recovery") of 10GB -- all in NTFS.

As the large partition is mostly empthy; I would like to resize (shrink) it, and put one or two new partition(s) between the two existing one -- one of them being the extended partition.

I have a gParted live CD, so I was thinking about using that.

My questions:
*Is it possible to shrink a NTFS partition with gParted, and create a new (extended) partition between the existing ones?
*Must I prepere the partition I want to shrink... e.g. defragment it?
*Do I risk (with gParted) to shrink it too much, and corrupting my files?
*Are there any pitfalls I should be aware of?

I've googled it, and it seems that often Vista refuses to boot after it's partition has been resized...:
*Is this a problem? Personal experiences...
*Can I prevent it from happening?
*If it happen, how can I recover from it (preferbly without reinstalling everything)?

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NTFSPROGS(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      NTFSPROGS(8)

NAME

       ntfsprogs - tools for doing neat things with NTFS

OVERVIEW

       ntfsprogs is a suite of NTFS utilities based around a shared library.  The tools are available for free and come with full source code.

TOOLS

       mkntfs(8) - Create an NTFS filesystem.

       ntfscat(8) - Dump a file's content to the standard output.

       ntfsclone(8) - Efficiently clone, backup, restore or rescue NTFS.

       ntfscluster(8) - Locate the files which use the given sectors or clusters.

       ntfscmp(8) - Compare two NTFS filesystems and tell the differences.

       ntfscp(8) - Copy a file to an NTFS volume.

       ntfsfix(8) - Check and fix some common errors, clear the LogFile and make Windows perform a thorough check next time it boots.

       ntfsinfo(8) - Show information about NTFS or one of the files or directories within it.

       ntfslabel(8) - Show, or set, an NTFS filesystem's volume label.

       ntfsls(8) - List information about files in a directory residing on an NTFS.

       ntfsresize(8) - Resize NTFS without losing data.

       ntfsundelete(8) - Recover deleted files from NTFS.

AUTHORS

       The  tools  were  written  by  Anton  Altaparmakov, Carmelo Kintana, Cristian Klein, Erik Sornes, Giang Nguyen, Holger Ohmacht, Lode Leroy,
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AVAILABILITY

       The ntfsprogs are part of the ntfs-3g package which can be downloaded from:
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SEE ALSO

       ntfs-3g(8)

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