[ale] reducing NTFS partition

[James P. Kinney III]

Welcome to windows partitioning HELL!  There is a (claimed) reason
behind M$ writing some unmovable blocks at the end of the C: drive
partition. It is along the lines of walking a dog and watching it pee on
every phone pole, mailbox and bush along the way.  Unfortunately, the
data in the blocks is important and the fool machines won't boot with
out it. 

I have used a version of partition magic to wiggle around some NTFS
partitions but that was on a NT4 system. PM won' defrag the disk any
better as the disk _IS_ defragged. But PM should be able to move the end
data blocks forward and make room for the real stuff.

There is some info on the end blocks and moving them in the docs with
FIPS. FIPS 2.0 can (supposedly) deal with the "unmovable" blocks. 

Of course, my personal vote is to fdisk the #$(&^% drive and rid your
self of the plague.

On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 21:19, Dow Hurst wrote:
> 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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