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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.

--
One suspects that with one side demanding DRM and the other side
demanding it not get in the way of enjoying the purchase, friable DRM is
the technical solution that makes everyone happy.  --AdB, in ASR
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see

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