Gavin Denby wrote:
Of course the other side of the coin, waiver or not, is that by separating the resizing from the linux install, in whatever way, and irrespective of the tools used. if data is lost, its not linux that did it, but rather the resizing of the windows partition that was the issue.
I would be happiest obviously if everyone had a few gig 'unallocated' space, and the issue never arose. If anyone turns up thinking that '4G used, 55G unused' on their windows partition is the same as unallocated, it's a pity to turn them away. Another issue that crossed my mind. Partition Managers (OnTrack, etc) and weird allocations. If we see these, the safest option is to make a boot floppy for Linux. GRUB and Lilo handle them very badly. Hopefully everyone who turns up will have a reasonably sane original 98 or XP install rather than a windows95usingOnTrackupgradedtowindoes98upgradedtoXP nightmare and it won't be a problem, but it's worth being aware of.