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| 104352 | 2002-12-09 02:20:00 | Im going home tonight to tryout Lycoris Desktop/LX, but dont have a spare dedicated HDD, so I was wondering if Linux can install on NTFS partitions or am I wasting my time with it. I know they can do FAT32, but Im not sure about NTFS. I've got over 7 gig free on a 11 Gig HDD! Cheers Chilling_Silence |
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| 104353 | 2002-12-09 02:38:00 | Try it. If it can't do it, it will complain, very early in the process;-) I'm not sure that the later ones will install on a DOS partition, anyway ... it's quite a performance hit. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 104354 | 2002-12-09 03:23:00 | Will it let me then do a non-destructive re-size of my partitions? or am I gonna have to buy PM for that? Cheers |
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| 104355 | 2002-12-09 03:46:00 | ranish and parted are free partitioners, which are well regarded .... I've just had a look for references, and found that you describe ranish as "kewl" on September 30. I thought my memory was poor. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 104356 | 2002-12-09 03:50:00 | That's destructive partitioning thou for Ranish AFAIK (2.40 was last time I used it). I want to keep all my sensitive data :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 104357 | 2002-12-09 04:37:00 | Did you forget to defrag the MS partition before splitting it? That's the easiest way to lose data as far as I know. However, it seems that ranish (and parted, and fips) might not handle NTFS. Can you convert an NTFS partition back to FAT32 so you can split it? | Graham L (2) | ||
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