> > > I hear that this is possible with Debian and not Red Hat. Actually, this is quite possible with any distro. I think in Mandrake the partition resizing is actually built into the installer. Ah, if only we would rip off the "nice" installers or something...
> I would just like to add it might work better with windows defragger. > some defragger's like norton's leave some files at the end, whereas > window's will more likely move them all to the front. hth Dean Once, when fips'ing a win2k (fat) partition, fips refused to shrink it more than a few megs, no matter how much I defragged it. It turned out some sort of virtual memory was residing at the end of the partition, and win2k wouldn't let me completely shut it off. So I used gnu parted, and just chopped it off (after copious prayer). It worked fine, but later cfdisk ate the entire partition table.... I think.... --Brendan