[nflug] shrink a linux partition for a dual boot with XP

[Jim Sever]

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From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org]On Behalf
Of Mark T. Valites
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:24 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: [nflug] shrink a linux partition for a dual boot with XP


On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Eric Benoit wrote:

> I figured out a half assed method to shrink my linux partition and 
> increase my winXP partition.
>
> I'm going to ghost the winXP partition to another drive as an image, 
> take yet another hard drive and create a large enough partition for 
> winXP, install the image to the newly created winXP partition, then 
> reinstall linux on the second free partition so grub will enable winXP 
> to boot, thus winXP is bigger and bootable.
>
> This is my way of thinking without really knowing any other tools I 
> could possibly use... any thoughts on this madness would be most 
> appreciated.


If you want to resize partitions on an existing disk and preserve the 
existing Windows and linux installs, just use parted or qparted (both 
availeble off a knoppix cd).

If you're attempting to do something else, can you clarify exactly what 
you're trying to do?

-Mark
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