Re: [SLE] Changing Installation Source brings to filesystem crash

On Monday 05 December 2005 2:15 pm, Lonn wrote:
> Tell me, do you or others spot errors in this thinking that may prevent a
> fresh install on different partitions. Particularly, I don't recall if XP
> has "defrag" because XP can be installed on NTFS, which MS does not
> defrag so maybe defrag is not in your XP, so maybe you will need a third
> party defrag program.
Windows XP certainly does have a defrag program for NTFS and NTFS does need
to be defraged.
Linux file systems generally do not need to be defraged.
Linux also has a program you can use to resize Linux, DOS FAT, and XP NTFS
partitions. GNU Parted has this capability and there is a graphical front
end, called QTParted (but it is not on the SuSE distro).
I generally boot Knoppix and run QTParted at Linux installfests and when I
must resize partitions. It is similar to Partition Magic in its graphical
presentation, but not quite as automatic.
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