Le mar 31 jan 2012 05:34:21 CET, Larry Martell a écrit:
... I can't even defrag the disk without admin rights :-(
I'm going to make one more push to get admin, and if not, just go ahead and install CentOS and see what happens.
You can check if there is enough available disk space without defragmenting, with ntfsresize : ntfsresize -i /dev/sda1 # or whatever is your ntfs partition ntfsresize -n --size <new size> /dev/sda1 These two commands only show/test what can be done, without changing anything on the disk.
If you feel ready for the change : fdisk -l /dev/sda # and keep a copy of the output ntfsresize --size <new size> /dev/sda1 # this time without -n fdisk /dev/sda Delete the old sda1 and recreate it with the same start and a size at least sufficient to hold the resized ntfs. Don't forget to change the type of the partition, and activate it. ntfsresize -fi /dev/sda1 If it reports any problem, undo what has been done with fdisk. Restart Windows and let it do its FS check.
This has worked for me, but as always : ymmv, be careful.