Be sure when you do these processes that you you do a backup after you do the scan and defrag. When you do the Linux side be sure the data is all pushed in to the lower areas in order to open up the area for the new partition. You can damage your data if this isn't the case on both the M$ and Linux areas. I can still use the old Ranish process for the partions. Be careful with NTFS and ext3 as they are limited in variables allowed in theirs and the others' partitions. Also, there are a lot of procedures fully explained on the Linux Doc site on recovery for MBR and GRUB, etc. Thanks, Tim Sinks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Samuel MacDonald" <smac at visi.com> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Resize a partition > Partition Magic is a great tool I've used it for re-sizing but not for > fixing a lost setup partition. Remember to keep a minimum of 10% free > disk space on each partition. You loose some performance in file writes, > it isn't a small loss of performance either. Read suffers a little but > the file write becomes a pain. > Linux uses a partition for swap space a fixed place for memory paging. > Linux checks for lost links and such upon startup. I think "fschk" is > the program > Windows uses a file for swap/page so on a windows machine it's really > important that "at least" 10% of disk is free. On a Windows machine you > should run scandisk once per week and defrag once per month. > > PHPTOm wrote: > > >Is is possible and not terribly dangerous to resize a partition? I have a > >drive that is one partition, about 6% used. > > > >TOm > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list