osx - Resize NTFS partition from Mac OS X?
2014-07
John Freeman
I have an external hard drive that I used for backups of my Windows machine. I left that machine behind but took the drive when I moved to a new city. So far, I've only bought and used a Macbook in the new city. I want to use this external drive for Time Machine, but when I first got the drive, I decided to format it in a single, large, 2TB NTFS partition. Is there a tool that runs in OS X that will let me resize an NTFS partition without losing the data?
BenjiWiebe
GParted would be able to do that.
You could boot from a GParted LiveCD or a GParted LiveUSB.
monksy
When creating a Win7 and Gentoo setup I miss allocated the space needed for Windows and Linux. I have a 320 gb drive and created a 40gb partition on Win7 and used the rest of the space on Linux. Now I need about 70gbs on the NTFS partition. Are there any tools that will shrink the ReiserFS3 partition? (It is using about 80gbs and has the reset free), while growing the NTFS partition?
If I have to clone, does the tool copy freespace inside the image? I would prefer this not happen as that I'm sort on backup space. [I can handle a 100-150gb of images, but I can't copy the entire HD]