Re: Shrinking a NTFS partition from Suse 10

houghi wrote:
Poldie wrote:
I guess, then, that it's a bug that there's an option to base a
partition/disk set up on a recommendation, but that when you change the
size of a partition a little it loses *all* the information it's just
shown you except for the size of the hard disk!

I just tried it and I saw not what you were talking about.
http://houghi.org/film/partition.avi

I'll look at the AVI later - no codec on this machine.

But basically, I initially saw something like:

hda/ 290gigs ntfs
hda1/93gigs ntfs
hda2/boot (1 gig)
hda3/linux (200 gigs)

i could `accept`,`base partition on this`,or `expert mode`. if i chose
the second option, I could resize hda1 to 240 gigs or so. I'd click on
`ok` and it would say something like `some of the linux partitions need
to change their size - i'll do it now` (at least, that's how I read
it). when I clicked ok it just immediately went back to

hda/290gigs ntfs

I'll do a reinstall tonight and use expert mode to divide up the disk
into the relevant sizes.

I always use expert mode. This was the first time I used the above
method. I have seen the question asked and the explanation given on the
opensuse-factory list (I think) whether this should be dropped and the
answer why not.

I didn't chose expert mode because, as you've probably gathered, i'm
not an expert! I'll watch your avi, but after that I'm going to
reinstall and first note down the suggested settings, then choose
expert mode and try and enter what was suggested except with the sizes
of the ntfs and linux partitions reversed (because 50gigs is plenty for
my early linux experimentations).

Thanks again.

.

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