I have ubuntu on my desktop and I have a secondary harddrive (that has windows on it) that I would like to repartition thru linux (my current version of windows partition magic is not compatible with vista). does anyone know any free/open source linux partitioners that can create NTFS partitions?

7/12/2007 10:18:12 AM

Unbuntu has a partition manager, you can create just about any type of partition if you have the space.

7/12/2007 10:26:27 AM

http://linux.die.net/man/8/mkfs.ntfs

Linux has NTFS support as of kernel 2.6, so if you're familiar with using mkfs, then you just specify NTFS as the filesystem type or use the command "mkntfs". If you haven't used mkfs or mkntfs before, it's pretty simple and there's a gazillion tutorials online that will explain it better than I can.

[Edited on July 12, 2007 at 11:30 AM. Reason : mkntfs]

7/12/2007 11:29:39 AM

dunno about ubuntu but Knoppix livecd has QTparted, Gparted, and another one I think, and I've successfully repartitioned things in ntfs before with them at least

7/12/2007 9:18:08 PM

If you're just strictly creating partitions, then yes, Ubuntu has QTParted/GParted. mkntfs is for formatting to NTFS. Sorry for the confusion.

CAVEAT EMPTOR: If you're resizing NTFS in Linux, there are still reported incidents of *parted based utilites mangling the data and partition information. Be sure to back up any important data if that's what you plan to do.



[Edited on July 13, 2007 at 2:19 PM. Reason : .]

7/13/2007 2:16:35 PM

yeah I did resize an ntfs partition smaller actually, with QTparted on knoppix 4.something, but I did back up my data and defrag several times so that the end of the drive was clean before I did it...

7/15/2007 8:08:23 PM

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"Linux has NTFS support as of kernel 2.62"

7/15/2007 10:26:07 PM