The Partitioning Wars

The reason, oh so long ago, I messed up a Vista installation is that Vista's new NTFS partition, stupidly still called the NTFS partition and being detected as an NTFS partition, despite the dangers of treating it as such, is incompatible with every re-sizing tool in Linux (at the time). Actually, the only re-sizing tool it can use is the Microsoft re-sizer, which is a program under start in Windows. Little alarm-bells going off? They should be. Apparently, not only is it possible to Live re-size an NTFS, it is actually the only way. People who know much about computers ought to feel a little ill now. So, using a Linux re-sizer to resize a windows partition breaks the OS. Wow, Linux might loose this battle if the Windows resizer is capable of dealing with EXT3 partitions...

Well it's not! Not only is it not capable of resizing them, starting the magical online windows re-sizer actually breaks EXT3s, and likely most other non-microshaft formats. No, not when you do anything, just STARTING THE PROGRAM UP, breaks them (It's trying to work out the partition format that does it, in case you were wondering.) This is one more reason to hate Windows, in addition to the one earlier this paragraph .

Linux wins again! 2048-Nil!