From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 26 17:19:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA6E16A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:19:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq2.home.nl (smtpq2.home.nl [213.51.128.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30A443D5F for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:19:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dodell@sitetronics.com) Received: from [213.51.128.136] (port=54061 helo=smtp5.home.nl) by smtpq2.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D55bR-0002cb-DK; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:19:41 +0100 Received: from cc740438-a.deven1.ov.home.nl ([82.72.18.239]:34882 helo=192.168.1.104) by smtp5.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D55bP-0003HE-UF; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:19:39 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org In-Reply-To: <20050226170812.GA21090@ryp76.name> References: <20050226170812.GA21090@ryp76.name> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: SiteTronics Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:19:39 +0100 Message-Id: <1109438379.3924.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: More than one NTFS resizer exists X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:19:43 -0000 On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 18:08 +0100, Paul Colin Gloster wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam, > > WWW.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html > erroneously has: > > "PartitionMagic is the only known application that can resize NTFS". > > TeraByte Unlimited's BooyIt Next Generation does this very well and has > been documented on GNU/Linux forums for this reason: you can find the > forums yourself, the company has a webpage at > WWW.TeraByteUnlimited.com/bootitng.html and I am a pleased regsitered user > of this shareware for over two years. > > Yours faithfully, > Paul Colin Gloster Additionally, there are other free utilities and LiveCDs which can do this: http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html qtparted is a frontend to this and knoppix (among others) distributes it. --Devon