[wlug_org] Re: Linux distros @ installfest06

[Mark Foster]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Venkatesh Sankaran wrote:

> --- Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> wrote:
>> Also, can anyone tell me if the Ubuntu disk has all the software needed
>> to resize NTFS paritions without too much hassle?
>> 
>> If not, please suggest a suitable liveCD that does, and which is easy to
>> use, and I'll download it and burn some copies.
>> 
> Nope, AFAIK the Ubuntu disk does not have NTFS resizing capability. I 
> normally use the gparted Live-CD. If you can download this please 
> (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php)

Question; I assume the usual disclaimers around data loss have been 
detailed?
And users reccomended to make a disk partition / empty disk space 
available prior to the event?

Disk resizing still strikes me as something that needs to be 'all clear, 
no responsibility'...