[ale] reducing NTFS partition

[Dow Hurst]

Well, no matter how much I run the stupid XP based defrag tool it won't
completely defrag the system.  The ntfsresize tool can't deal with the
end of the volume in a fragmented state.  So, will Partition Magic
defrag correctly and resize to any size that I want the NTFS partition?

I have a 40Gb drive with a resized NTFS partition of 22Gb, a 32Mb
partition for Dell's tools, a ~18Gb extended partition with ~17Gb for /
and 1Gb for /swap.  I really wanted about 6Gb for XP and the rest for
Linux.
Dow


>>> dhurst at kennesaw.edu 05/04/03 17:48 PM >>>
I have successfully resized a NTFS partition using the new ntfsresize
tool from the linux-ntfs project at sourceforge.  The XP defrag tool
however will not move files from the end of the new partition.  I was
lucky that XP hadn't put files at the end of the original partition!  Is
there a way or tool to shift all files in a NTFS partition to the front
end so you pick your partition size?  Thanks,
Dow

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