docs/71980: Handbook says that no other software is known to be able to resize NTFS...

[Joonatan Kaartinen]

>Number:         71980
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Handbook says that no other software is known to be able to resize NTFS...
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 21 17:10:25 GMT 2004
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>Originator:     Joonatan Kaartinen
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There is a line in handbook that says:
"PartitionMagic is the only known application that can resize NTFS."

This is no longer accurate. There is an utility available from http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ called ntfsresize that can also resize NTFS partitions. It's included by default in Linux live-cd called Knoppix. Also present in Debian in package ntfsprogs.

I have used the utility a couple of times. No problems so far.

I have no idea how portable the utilities are, though.

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