Reallocating Drive Space

[Alex Mandel]

Daniel Robitaille wrote:
>>Here's the drive layout:
>>
>>david at n1zhe:~$ df -h
>>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>/dev/hda3              37G  8.8G   27G  26% /
>>tmpfs                 253M  8.0K  253M   1% /dev/shm
>>/dev/hdb1              19G   15G  3.4G  82% /home
>>/dev/hda1              39G   14G   25G  35% /media/windoze
>>
>>I want to reduce the size of my Windows partition by half. I want to
>>reallocate this room to my main Linux partition (hda3).
>>
>>I then want to move my /home folder to hda3. I'll use hdb1 to store
>>photos, music files, ISO's, etc.
>>
>>Moving the /home folder won't be all that hard, but I'd like to know
>>the best way to resize my hda drive, then reallocate the space for
>>Ubuntu without hosing the whole works.
>>
>>Any suggestions?
>>
> 
> 
> qtparted should be able to do that.  I haven't done it in a while (and
> only in fat32 partition, never ntfs), but the last time I did a resize
> of partitions  I used qtparted, using the Knoppix Live CD.
> 
> Don't forget to backups before you attempt anything :)
> I remember Partition Magic trashing my Windows 98 partition once a few
> years ago. while doing something like you want to do...
> 
> --
> Daniel Robitaille
> 
qtparted worked fine on my ntfs winxp drive, in the recent version even 
claims that you don't need to defrag before you run, but I recommend 
that you defrag windows first to be safer.

Alex