From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: Previously, the more popualr consumer versions of Windows used the FAT32 filesystem for storage. The FIPS utility on the Red Hat CD was a unsupported yet capable system for resizing these partitions. Nowdays both consumer and business versions of Windows use the NTFS filesystem by default, which cannot be non-destructively resized by any existing Open Source utility. Having a free tool to assist Windows XP, 2000, and NT4 users resize their partitions so they can dual boot will allow Windows users to still easily dual boot Linux without additional software and expense, the same way they used to with older versions of Windows. I think adding NTFS support to parted may be an appropriate solution. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install a older version of consumer Windows (eg, 95, 98 Me) 2.Use FIPS to resize the partition and dual boot 2.Install the current version of consumer Windows, Windows XP 2.Try and resize the partition to dual boot Additional info:
Resising NTFS is non-trivial. Very non-trivial. Spending time to implement such a feature would have very little return on investment. Red Hat will incorporate such technology if the open source community develops it, but will not do so internally.
Fair enough, thanks for the prompt answer anyway. I've since been told there is indeed a good chance of this happening from the community sometime soon from the Linux NTFS project.