> PartitionMagic is the best for this, but at $70 it is a bit pricey. > There may be free programs to do this, but I have no experience with them.
QTparted: open-source alternative to PQMagic, _and_ it's significantly faster (e.g. resizing a 40GB NTFS partition to 10GB with PQMagic took me an hour or two; with qtparted, it took about ten minutes) and less error-prone (e.g. I've had qtparted fail many times, but only once was it so catastrophic that I couldn't fix it easily; with PQMagic, if it failed, I knew I was screwed...). I've been using PartitionMagic since 4.x, and stumbled across QTparted after having PQMagic 8 consistently wipe my entire 120GB drive at startup - before I'd even done anything! The support folks didn't help at all on that one, so I gave up on PQMagic (although they did give me some help later that wasn't great, but got me on the right path to fixing the problem I was having). You can get a decent version of qtparted (assuming you don't care much for English grammar) with the current Knoppix - which is pretty much the only reason why I still use Knoppix. ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
