Re: Linux plus XP

[Danny Sauer <cloudmaster@cloudmaster.com>]

mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
>>mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
>>
>>>The ability to resize an XP partition during install is crucial if you
>>>are on a system where the slathered XP over the entire disk.
>>
>>I'm pretty sure that Mandrake supports resizing NTFS partitions, too.  
>>According to http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html, anyway...
> 
> 
> Which version of Mandrake?

I dunno, I'm just blindly quoting a random web page. :)

> And note that NTFS resizing is not the same as
> XP resizing. There are apparently subtle "upgrade requirements" Microsoft
> has made in the meantime (likely to better support CaptiveDirectory).

I'll be darned:
http://www.pcquest.com/content/technology/102031401.asp

Essentially, XP's NTFS adds support for hard links and moved some stuff around 
in the master file table for "performance" reasons.  That's annoying.  Remind me 
not to "upgrade" my 2000 boxes to XP...

> But the new MDK9.1 may indeed have XP resizing. Good features from GPL 
> software tends to spread among the distros relatively quickly. :=)

If the mandrake installer is using the ntfsresize utils in the link in my 
original reply, it supports XP's NTFS.  I can't find a changelog detailing when 
that support was added, but since they say "Mandrake installer" I assume that 
the most recent should support NTFS 3.1 (or 5.1, whatever you wanna call it).

--Danny


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