[ILUG] cfdisk/lilo and WinXP/NTFS compatible?

[cout at eircom.net]

"Jason Corcoran." <corcoranj at logica.com> wrote:

> 
> What distro are you using I have found that mandrake has a great resizer.
> 
> AFAIK it can handle NTFS.
> 
> J.
> 
> On Monday 14 January 2002 16:36, you wrote:
> > cout at eircom.net wrote:
> > > Slightly OT.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any suggestions on howto resize a partition running
> > > ntfs that does not entail repartition or buying partition magic?
> >
> > three answers
> >
> > #1 the long & very complicated one
> > 	Get a second hard disk (of the same size or greater)
> > 	& use ghost!
> > 	I've recently attempted this & will say straight off
> > 	that it's not worth the grief!
> > #2 Not sure if this will work with NTFS, But
> > 	check out the info on fips
> > #3 short & sweet.
> > 	NO! you can't do it without PM or some variant of an fdisk
> > 	type proggie
> >
> > 		Ray ...
> 
> 
Bought the father Mandrake 8.1 as he would only use something if it was bought (probably just doesn't want to set a "bad example") anyhow,  the diskdrake does not seem able to resize the XP ntfs partition the father has and checking it out I was fairly sure that was because the diskdrake and fips it would seem could not write to a ntfs file system and thus could not resize it.  Plus running 2.4.16 my own 2k and xp partitions only seem to have read only support so,  I am assuming that is because the kernel does not support r/w rather than my not having used mount options x &/or y but I could be wrong.