[ale] Setting up dual boot machine

[Preston Boyington]

Brian Pitts wrote:
> Preston Boyington wrote:
>> There's just something about resizing a disk that you are currently
>> using that bothers me.
> 
> I agree that imaging with partimage or some similar tool is a good idea,
> but how is resizing this way any different than letting the Ubuntu,
> openSUSE, Fedora, etc. installer resize it?
> 

actually i doubt if you will notice a difference between a livecd and 
how these installers partition.  in fact i don't believe i have heard 
any "lost my data" stories from any modern partitioning program over the 
last several years.

that said, let me clarify a bit.  if i am doing fresh installs then i 
use the installer like most people.  now, if i am having to resize the 
partitions after they have post install data then i use a livecd or if i 
am resizing a partition and creating a new partition in (say) Windows i 
use a livecd.

on a dual-boot machine with an existing Windows partition, i would grab 
a livecd and use it to resize the drive & create a new empty partition 
with all the free space i wanted for my linux os.  then i would install 
linux and use the included program to create whatever linux partitions i 
was going to use.

it's probably extra (and maybe unnecessary) steps, but for me it comes 
down to being outside the workings of the disk while i am moving bits 
around.