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Author Re: Need to shrink extended partition and add to NTFS (boot) with Gparted in Win-XP
Dances With Crows

2007-12-16, 7:12 pm

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ahmbrahmasmi@gmail.com staggered into the Black Sun and said:
> I downloaded [the] Gparted live-cd from sourceforge.net (0.3.4-10) and
> booted [it] on my Sony vaio PCV-RX650. I have an 80GB disk with [a]
> 14.93 GB primary boot partition and an extended partition of 59.58 GB
> for data most of which is free. I am running WindowsXP Home edition.


Time to get a real OS, eh? Isn't it a PITA to use 'DozeXP Home in
places where they have domains/workgroups?

> I wanted to take about 10 GB out of the extended partition and
> allocate it to the NTFS primary partition. Is this possible ?


No problem. Use gparted to shrink /dev/hda5 , commit changes, then
shrink the extended partition where /dev/hda5 resides. Then expand
/dev/hda1 and commit changes. I've done this before on 'Doze2K and it
worked fine.

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