On Sun, 07 June 2015 at 14:14 zulu, Robert Nichols wrote:> It's generally recommended to use Windows tools to do NTFS re-sizing.I tend to disagree with that advice... I would recommend http://gparted.org/livecd.php over the microsoft-supplied tools, in a heartbeat. Boot off that Live image on a CD or thumbdrive (or use the version of GPartEd included with the System Rescue Live CD from http://www.sysresccd.org/ ), select the correct disk from the drop down menu in the upper-right, set the borders of the partitions where you want them with the GUI, then tell it to Apply the pending actions. If I recall correctly, the disk management tool in the windows MMC won't resize the partition it's running from, by the way.
On 06/07/2015 09:01 PM, Darr247 wrote:> > I tend to disagree with that advice... > I would recommend http://gparted.org/livecd.php over the microsoft-supplied > tools, in a heartbeat.Why? If you use gparted (ntfsprogs, under the covers, IIRC), the system will chkdsk on the next boot. No such requirement exists with Microsoft's tools.> If I recall correctly, the disk management tool in the windows MMC won't > resize the partition it's running from, by the way.You do not recall correctly.
On Monday, 08 June 2015 at @07:06 zulu, Gordon Messmer wrote:> Why? If you use gparted (ntfsprogs, under the covers, IIRC), the system > will chkdsk on the next boot. No such requirement exists with Microsoft's > toolsThat's not been my experience... gparted does use ntfs-3g to work on NTFS partitions (what linux-based tool doesn't?), but does not by default set the dirty bit. Its GUI also offers much-finer granularity than microsoft's.