Hi All,

I've been trying to resize my usb hard drive (Maxtor Basics portable) using qtparted from Knoppix, and try to free up some space to install a permanent image in this HD.

The HD is recognized as /dev/sda1 and when I reduce the size of this ntfs partition I get an OK prompt but nothing changes. This doesn't happens with /dev/hda1 which appears to recognize any changes I made.

The only difference I noticed between /dev/hda1 and /dev/sda1 is the status which is busy for the first and available for the second. If I try to unmount by right clicking on the /dev/sda1 icon I get a message that says something like "the device appears to be mounted more than once"

Any help is greatly appreciatted ... In case you wonder why I don't want the whole drive it's because I'd like to keep some of the data that is already there.

Thanks in advance,

Dan