No further ideas from anybody here?
On 1/17/08, Chetan S cshring@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 17, 2008 10:38 AM, Nishit Dave stargazer.dave@gmail.com wrote:
I know, but my question is as follows:
it is a given that windows will not consolidate free space. Now, does Gparted magically work around this limitation when shrinking the NTFS partition without affecting the used portion? When you see its interface, you get a bar for the partition showing used and unused portions with different colours. Apparently, I can resize the partition by resizing the bar to take lesser unused space. Will doing this only affect the unused space, which according to NTFS is non-contiguous? It seems a bit counter-intuitive to me.
I have to claim incomplete information here. However the process does involve re-indexing the tables. I don't know if the truncation of files is smart at all.
I have encountered a situation were the underlying ntfs tools crapped on me saying that the partition would need a check / defrag via windows.
Since then I've used windows to check their own problems and fix them too before resizing the parts.
regards, C -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers