[Thinkpad] Shrinking boot partition on T60

[Alex Austin]

On 8/21/07, Julian Thomas <jt at jt-mj.net> wrote:
>
> I'm going to be receiving a new T60 in a day or so (Thanks, Bruce) and
> want to rearrange the hard drive to include a boot manager and several
> additional extended partitions.
>
> The machine does not have a diskette drive, which means that the tools I
> used (Partition magic 7 diskettes) on a T23 last time I did this won't
> work.
>
> I've downloaded and burned a CD with Sysrescue, which specifically
> includes GPart-D.
>
> Does anyone have experience with this, either good or bad?


Note, There is a difference between gparted, and gpart.

Gparted is a graphical partition editor which includes resizing partitions.
GPart is for Guessing a partition table on a disk where it has been
corrupted.

Gparted should have no difficulty resizing the NTFS partition for you.
Granted, I would use command line utilities since I'm more experienced with
them, but they're the same backend as is used by gparted.

Anyhoo, there should be no difficulty there.

As for boot manager, you will want to install GRUB. Any linux distro you
install should include GRUB. If you're not using Linux, it can be installed
by itself, but it needs a very small partition to store its own files. (1meg
will do)

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