found a tool to resize ntfs file systems

[Gregory Nowak]

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Hi all. Remembering the previous discussions on this list about the
difficulty of installing gnu/linux on a drive devoted entirely to ntfs,
I thought this might be of interest to some. I recently found a package
called ntfsprogs, <http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/>. This consists
of a ntfs library, as well as a few ntfs tools. One of these tools is
ntfsresize, which as its name suggests, can shrink, or enlarge ntfs
file systems. Note that this tool doesn't do anything to the partition
table, it only works on the file system itself. So, in order to shrink
an ntfs partition, to make room on the drive for a linux
partition, you need to first shrink the file system, and then shrink
the partition with something like parted, and all of this is described
in the ntfsresize man page.

I haven't had to shrink a ntfs file system, but I have needed recently
to enlarge a file system to take up all of a larger partition, which
is what prompted me to look for such a tool in the first place, and
ntfsresize enlarged the file system flawlessly, your mileage may very
of course.

So, while creating room on a hard disk fully occupied by an ntfs
partition is still not a snap, it is nevertheless possible to do. Hope
this is of some use to someone.

Greg


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