found a tool to resize ntfs file systems

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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It is worth noting that this package also has many other useful
utilities. ntfsclone, for example allows an efficient backup and restore
of an ntfs partition.

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And so it came to pass that on Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Gregory Nowak said

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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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