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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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ntfs.util

NTFS.UTIL(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					      NTFS.UTIL(8)

NAME

     ntfs.util -- NTFS file system utility

SYNOPSIS

     ntfs.util -k device

     ntfs.util -m device mountpoint mountflag1 mountflag2 mountflag3 mountflag4

     ntfs.util -p device mountflag1 mountflag2

     ntfs.util -u device mountpoint

DESCRIPTION

     The ntfs.util command supports the mounting, probing, and unmounting of NTFS file systems.

     Options:
	   -k	       Get the UUID key for the NTFS file system at device.
	   -m	       Mount the NTFS file system located on device onto mountpoint with the flags mountflag1 mountflag2 mountflag3 mountflag4.
	   -p	       Probe the device for an NTFS file system using the flags mountflag1 mountflag2.	If the probe is successful, i.e. the
		       device contains a valid NTFS file system, its label is printed to the standard output stream.
	   -u	       Unmount the NTFS file system located at device and mounted on mountpoint.

     The mountflags referenced above are:
	   o   mountflag1: removable or fixed
	   o   mountflag2: readonly or writeable
	   o   mountflag3: suid or nosuid
	   o   mountflag4: dev or nodev

SEE ALSO

     diskarbitrationd(8) mount_ntfs(8)

HISTORY

     This NTFS implementation first appeared in Mac OS X 10.5.

AUTHORS

     This NTFS implementation was written by Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>.

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