[ale] Reclaiming WIndows drive space

[Dow Hurst]

Trey,
I know you've probably dealt with this problem by now, but I thought I'd 
address it since I missed seeing it earlier.  You can use 
resize_reiserfs command to grow or shrink an unmounted reiserfs 
filesystem.  Use a partitioning tool to delete the reiserfs and windows 
partitions. Remake the reiserfs partition with the same original 
starting cylinder but end the partition with the end of the windows 
partition cylinder.  Then use the resize_reiserfs to grow the current 
filesystem to the end of the disk.

If you wanted to slide partitions around on a disk first, then I've used 
Bootitng to do that successfully.  It is a shareware type program that I 
bought and liked,
Dow

Trey Sizemore wrote:
>I've got a laptop with a 60GB drive divided 50/50 between SUSE 9.3 and
>WinXP.  I'd like to reclaim the the 30GB WinXP partition and use the
>60GB drive exclusively for SUSE (making a 30GB /data partition).
>
>What would be the easiest way to do this?  I've got Partiion Magic 7
>with which I thought I might nuke the WinXP partition.  Or is doing
>this in Linux better.  The current SUSE partitions are ReiserFS so I
>thought I'd do the same with this new partition.
>
>I have a ton of data on the SUSE side and I could backup and do a
>complete reinstall, but this would be a last resort.
>
>Thanks for tips.
>
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