Thanks Re: [SLUG] NTFS HD, chkdsk and ntfsresize?

[bill <billb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the reply Amos

Prior to your advice I tried G4L but stuffed it by reversing 
Source/Target . Dont know what data I lost ( Home PC), but nothing 
irreplaceable I think.

Oh well, at least I now have an empty 120gb SATA HD that I can reformat 
for Linux.

Thanks again

Bill
> Subject:
> Re: [SLUG] NTFS HD, chkdsk and ntfsresize?
> From:
> "Amos Shapira" <amos.shapira@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:
> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:03:20 +1000
> To:
> SLUG <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> To:
> SLUG <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:42 AM, bill <billb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> >  Note - Using 57676M ( obtained from result of sudo ntfsresize -i /dev/sda1
> > above) didnt work.
> >
> >  Is it safe to use sudo ntfsresize  --force -s 43896M /dev/sda1 or do I risk
> > losing my data?
> >     
>
> You should first resize the partition in the partition table (using
> fdisk, delete then re-create the partition, change its type to "7"
> (NTFS)), have you done that?
> After that is done, ntfsresize will by default automatically resize
> the file system to occupy the entire partition (see the bottom of the
> output from running "ntfsresize" without arguments).
>
> --Amos
>
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