Re: Has anybody resized a NTFS partition recently?

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost>]

> Last time I resized a NTFS partition to make room for Netbsd was in
> 2013 and I used an old version of GParted. Everything went absolutely
> fine.

> Recently I used a newer version of Gparted to resize a FAT32 usb disk
> and it ended up in massive filesystem corruption.

> I know that FAT is not NTFS, but I don't want to take any chances. I
> have too much stuff on my Windows partition that unfortunately I can't
> back up anywhere else.

> Apparently Gparted now uses a newer version of libparted that is
> causing problems.

> Has anybody had any positive experiences lately?

> Thanks

> Ottavio

I'd be scared to try it.

I believe Gparted is a Linux distro.  At first, I thought you were referring to resizing an NTFS partition from NetBSD.

I've never been able to read or write NTFS from NetBSD. I was able to build fuse-ntfs-3g for FreeBSD from ports, but failed in NetBSD with pkgsrc.

For backing up, you could use an external hard drive, USB, or better yet, eSATA.

I've been thinking about ordering a MicroNet Fantom external hard drive, would go for eSATA model.

Tom