[CVALE] Partition resizing

[Kristian Hoffmann]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 dan at imabiz.com wrote:

> As an excuse to say "hi"....

Hi!

> Anyone have any words of wisdom on the viability of tools like QTparted
> or Gparted as (non-destructive) partition resizers?  Particularly in the

I've had very good results with the ntfsprogs[1] package.  It contains a
utility called ntfsresize that I've used a few times in conjunction with
ntfsclone to migrate a Windows system from a smaller drive (or RAID
volume) to another.  I use ntfsclone pointing the output at the new
device, and then ntfsresize to enlarge the filesystem on the new device.
The benefit of using ntfsclone first is that if ntfsresize doesn't work,
the original filesystem is unmodified.

It looks like QTparted uses ntfsprogs itself for modifying ntfs
filesystems.  So if you prefer the GUI, it should give you the same
results (sans ntfsclone).

> NTFS world?  And, to make matters worse, how about on a RAID 5 system?

As long as you're booting on a Linux kernel that has support for your RAID
controller, it shouldn't make a difference.

> Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Regards,

-Kristian


[1] - http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsprogs