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Sly D
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Posted: 20th Sep 2007 18:52 Edited at: 20th Sep 2007 18:52
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Hey guys, I was wondering has anyone of you ever resized a partition? What are the dangers of losing the data on that partition? Thanks for your help in advance.

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 20th Sep 2007 19:28
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Dangers vary - there is a risk it could lose stuff but (obviously) only if something goes wrong, like the application crashes/does something silly or your have a power-cut/run out of battery...

I've used this application with great success in the past..

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

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Sly D
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Posted: 20th Sep 2007 20:29
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Yes Nicholas, that's the program I plan on using, see I'm trying to make room for Ubunutu, and I've defragmented the partition in question a couple of times and will now try installing. Hope everything goes ok.

Thanks very much for your reply.

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Osiris
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Posted: 20th Sep 2007 21:37
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Just don't make your resized partition smaller than the amount of data already on the drive. Also, defragment before hand.

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