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Old 11-27-2004, 01:50 PM   #1
perigee
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Resize Linux partition

Dear All,

Now i've both winXP and Mandrake 10.0 on my laptop, I want to remove 2 GB disk space from linux to XP, anyone could give me some advice.

Thank you advance.
 
Old 11-27-2004, 02:33 PM   #2
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Welcome to LQ.

If you want to resize partitions then take a look at parted:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html

Whenever you intend to modify disks at a low level make sure you have a backup first.
 
Old 11-27-2004, 04:03 PM   #3
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QTparted and cfdisk also work great for this. I used Mandrake installer to resize my windows partition with nothing bad happening.
Last edited by rrfish72; 11-27-2004 at 04:05 PM.
 
Old 11-28-2004, 05:48 AM   #4
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Thanks guys lot.
 
  


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