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[Peter Belew]

There's not really a problem with NTFS. My laptop was
originally formatted with an NTFS partition, and the
parted variant I used had no problem splitting it.

One annoyance, though, is that the defrag for NTFS doesn't
try to move all the files towards the beginning of the disk -
it pretty much defrags files in place.  So if a disk is pretty
full, things can get messy.

- Peter

On 10/3/05, cerise at armory.com <cerise at armory.com> wrote:
> Assuming that it's not NTFS.  If you're running NTFS, then things
> get messy =/
>
> -Phil/CERisE
>
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:34:05PM -0700, Peter Belew wrote:
> > Yes, this is in fact easy. Before starting the Linux stuff, you want
> > to defrag your disk (partitions) with the XP defragment utiity.
> >
> > If you're free this evening, there's a SMAUG meeting tonight
> > in Capitola, you can get help at that.
> >
> >   http://www.scruz.org/
> >
> > Ignore the meeting date on the page; but the location is correct.
> > We're meeting every Monday night now at Tiny's. Usually
> > a few people show up with their laptops, either installing stuff
> > or gaming on ancient laptops without GUIs, or some other
> > such activity.
> >
> > A ride could be provided. The attendees include some current
> > and former SlugLUG people. SlugLUG hasn't had much in
> > the way of meetings in the last year, and only about 1 or 2
> > installfests a year, as well. And, as you say, the list activity
> > is a little slow.
> >
> > Some variant on parted or nparted will do the partitioning, once
> > the XP partition is defragged.
> >
> > - Peter Belew
> >
> > On 10/3/05, Patrick Brede <pbrede at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> > > Hi everybody. My name is Patrick Brede and i'm a first
> > > year cs major. I just joined the list, and it seems like
> > > nothing is happening on it. Is this true? The site
> > > certainly seems like it isn't very active. Anyway, i would
> > > like to set up my laptop (new inspiron 6000) to duel boot
> > > SUSE linux and winXP. As i have never done this before, i
> > > was wondering if anybody who had done something similair
> > > would be willing to help me out (possibly in person) and
> > > show me how to do it. I would like to be able to do it
> > > without reformatting completely, i.e. resize the windows
> > > partition. i know it's possible but have no experience
> > > here and wouldn't want to screw up my only computer.
> > > Thanks everybody.
> > >
> > > -patrick
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