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On 16/5/2011, at 4:35pm, Mick wrote: |
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>> GParted is the next choice, then - I understand it to be more than "just a graphical front-end", and I don't think you'll have such good results trying to use command-line tools to expand NTFS partitions. |
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> After your dd the data over to the new disk you will need to run |
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> gparted as suggested by Stroller, or use ntfsresize which is what |
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> gparted uses anyway. |
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I believe that GParted uses the ntfsresize *libraries* directly, rather than the ntfsresize command-line program. |
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I believe that's why GParted behaves *better* than ntfsresize - I'm sure there has been at least one occasion on which I found it better to use GParted than ntfsresize (which wouldn't do what I wanted). |
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I made the quoted statement for a reason. |
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Stroller. |
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