Re: QTparted misreporting partition usage

From: Ian Hutchinson (ihutch_at_verizon.net)
Date: 06/26/05

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    Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:55:24 GMT

    perseus wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I'm planning to install FC4 on my laptop (dell i6000) as a dual boot
    > with the currently installed windows XP. However, when I come to
    > partition the drive using QTparted via Knoppix CD, QTparted misreports
    > the usage of the Windows partition(NTFS) saying that ~30Gb of ~33Gb are
    > used, when running du shows that only 9Gb are used. I tried
    > defragmenting the disk, but this made no difference. Has anyone else
    > come across this problem before?
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    > perseus

    Knoppix partitioning tools were too limited for me when I tried the same
    thing:
    http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/tp41setup.html

    Just running the installer for the first system I used was a much more
    satisfactory result. I don't know in detail about FC4, whether it can
    handle shrinking your windows partition, though.

    Ian Hutchinson

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