LINUX AND NTFS

[estesflyer]

I inserted suse 7.3 cd 1 into cd rom drive, then boot... i go through all the screens, selecting my region, language, etc... Anyways, i get to the point where it asks me which partition i want to DELETE! I think to myself a moment, then I check the manuals that came w/ the professional package... Everything looks normal in the manuals, and it even shows yast2 giving the option to resize the windows partition so my hardrive will have enough space for a linux partition... I think for a moment, then I checked out these forums and saw another post which mentioned linux not being capable of reading/writing on an ntfs partition. I know that it is possible to read from one, but i've been told its 'flaky'. So anyways, sine i only have 7.28 megs or so of free space on my hard disk, i was wondering if anyone knew of a way to resize my NTFS. I'm not a linux guru, a noob is more like it...
Any and all help WILL be appreciated greatly! I'm wanting to see linux's full advantages over windows, but it will take time to adjust...

TIA

- Rusty - Rusty

 

[alpha4eva]

i'm not that good with linux, but i sure do know how to resize a partition, of course you'll need software for this,

you'll need PowerQuest Partition magic, I recommend version 5 or greater, I use 7, so it's up to you. Don't use the actual windows softare though, i recommend you install partition first, then make the bootable floppies, i think it's 2 disks,

once you're in linux, do a make xconfig in your kernel and choose File System, and put a Y beside reading NTFS, it's there, linux can read NTFS I'm sure,

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks for the info.

- Rusty