[olug] Parted resize HFS+ partition success

[Christopher R. White]

Ah... Dynamic as in software RAID type setups (google rulez)  No 
experience, sorry

On another note, I am now running Kubuntu 5.04 on my iBook G4!  Seems to 
be quite stable!  I'll try a few things as time passes and report my 
experiences later.

Hurley Rod wrote:

>Actually, these are primary partitions, but some are configured as Basic
>Disks, and some are Dynamic Disks.  Another Windoze situation that could
>have been avoided... 
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>From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
>Christopher R. White
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>To: Omaha Linux User Group
>Subject: Re: [olug] Parted resize HFS+ partition success
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>I only have experience with primary partitions.  Usually only one or two
>per disk (I think that is what you were asking).
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>Hurley Rod wrote:
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>>Did you do both Basic and Dynamic disks on NTFS partitions?  I have
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>>of both that Diskpart doesn't want to extend.    
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>>Christopher R. White
>>Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 2:34 PM
>>To: dan at linder.org; Omaha Linux User Group
>>Subject: Re: [olug] Parted resize HFS+ partition success
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>>I have personally had luck using Parted or QTParted under Knoppix to 
>>safely resize NTFS partitions.  My personal steps are to run chkdisk, 
>>defrag, turn off page file, reboot to Knoppix then run QTParted.  You 
>>get a nice graphical representation of all HDs in the system and you 
>>can mess with all of them w/o fear (until you save changes that is).  
>>I've used QTParted many times on many systems and had no data loss.  
>>Even better is that it now will move files on the disk to free up 
>>contiguous space thereby eliminating previous problems I'd faced with 
>>Windows defrag program!
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>>Hope this helps
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>>Chris from Kearney
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>>Daniel Linder wrote:
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>>>>This is Chris from Kearney - I came to the InstallFest and left 
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>>>Hey, glad to have ya on.  That's the wonderfull thing about mailing 
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>>>>Just thought I should share with all of you I managed to successfully
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>>>>resize my HFS+ partition using parted.  [snip -- Dan]
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>>>Congrats -- editing/resizing partitions is no small feat.
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>>>Since Chris has had luck with HFS+, has anyone used the parted to 
>>>resize a WinXP NTFS partition?  My wifes Athlon XP64 3000 really needs
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>>>a small Linux x86-64 install on it but I don't want to have to go 
>>>through the backup/fdisk/restore process.  (I *will* do the 
>>>backup/parted/cross-fingers process nomatter what anyone says!)  Any 
>>>experts want to chime in?
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