Has anyone used parted to resize partitions? My current linux installation is on my second hard drive, which I allocated way too much space for MP3s and such, so I want to resize it a bit so that I have more space for linux. I know parted should work, but I haven''t heard too much about it. Basically, I just want to know of any problems anyone has had with it, or if there haven''t been any problems. Also, a related question. I''m pretty sure it''s impossible, but perhaps not... Is it possible to convert an NTFS filesystem to a FAT32 filesystem without destroying data? I know you can go from FAT32->NTFS, but I''m not sure about the other way around... Basically I''d want to do this so that I can write to the media partition from linux rather than only in Windows which I hardly use to begin with. http://chaos.webhop.org

Crap. Looks like I''m actually SOL. Apparently parted can''t resize or create NTFS partitions. So unless there''s a way to go from NTFS to FAT32, I''m going to have to do some fenagling (or however you spell that word).

http://chaos.webhop.org

Finagling. And there''s no way to get it done.

There''s a program called ntfsresize that is, somewhat obviously, meant to resize NTFS partitions. I''ve never used it myself, but from here you can see its creators consider it "stable".

Hmm, that site''s not loading right now... Maybe sourceforge is down. Anyway, it''s not really too big a deal, come to think of it, because I''ve got enough space left on my first hard drive to just temporarily copy all the stuff on the second and then put it back on the second one. I''ll look into ntfsresize and let you know what happens, though.