Shoutbox

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Originally posted by rob_botch
(Incidentally, this took ages, much longer than when I used a Windows program, I think PartitionMagic, on my old computer - are there any other free tools that anyone can recommend?).

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Originally posted by andrewdodd13
gParted will have taken a long time to resize the partition because it likely had to move data from the end of the partition in to the new boundaries.

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Indeed, no other program will be much faster (gparted is probably of the fastest out there, seeing as it running alone without background crap slowing it down)