[SATLUG] G/Parted + NTFS

[Jonathan Hull]

I've resized NTFS with gparted successfully before. However, I dunno if it
will work for you with RAID. If it is a true hardware RAID and not a cheap
knockoff that does it with the software then it SHOULD work, but make sure
those backups are up to date and good before you try it.

On 6/8/07, Channing <Channing.ML at channingc.com> wrote:
>
> I am looking for first-hand experiences with the following.  I'd like to
> use gparted to resize a 2000 (SP3) server's filesystems .  It's a
> hardware RAID 5 with the slicing looking like the following:
>
>     C:               4G     NTFS (600 Megs free)
>     D:               98G   NTFS (40G free)
>
> The goal is to increase C: with some of the unused space from D: without
> having to restore from backups after the resize/move.  I'm sure if I
> plop-down  $70 for Partition Magic, this is doable without running into
> any restore non-sense.  Is that true for gparted?
>
> TIA,
> Channing
>
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