Who's Right ... Parted or NT Disk Admin???

[Sean Cooper]

I have a machine that triple boots 98SE, Win NT server 4.0, and Redhat 6.2. I
want to decrease the size of 
the windoze partitions and increase /home and also swap (I added more RAM).

parted says (comments far right in []):

1          0.31  2047.346       primary         FAT             boot            
[Win 98]
2       2047.346  14668.725     extended                        
6       2047.408        2070.878        logical         ext2                    
        [aka /boot or /dev/hda7]
7       2070.910        6338.144        logical         ext2                    
        [aka /       or /dev/hda6]
8       6338.175        6408.742        logical         linux-swap              
        [SWAP           or /dev/hda8]
5       6408.773        8456.088        logical         ntfs                    
        [aka Win NT]

NT4 Disk Administrator looks like this:

| WIN 98SE      | WINNT 4.0|"/boot"     |"/"                            
|"/swap"        |"free space"                                   |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 +
| WIN 98SE      | WINNT 4       | Linux | Linux                 | Linux | Free 
Space                                    |
| FAT           | NTFS  | Ext2  | Ext2                  | swap  |               
                                        |
| 4GB           | 4GB           | 23 MB | 4 GB                  | 70MB  | 8GB   
                                                |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 +

(I apologize if this diagram is scrambled -- I tried)

The confusing part is that NT4 Disk Administrator shows the NT partition more to
the left (earlier 
in the disk) than parted says that it is. So I'm not sure if NT is where parted
says it is or if 
Disk Admin is correct. 

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Doing this seems like the right idea but with the wrong numbers:  

remove the existing swap space                                          rm 8
extend the existing / to cover the old swap                     resize 7 
2070.910 6408.000
make a new 4gb /home fs where / ends                            mkpartfs 
logical ext2 6408.742 10504
        (This would overwrite NT-- NG)
make a new 320MB swap fs at the end of /home            mkpartfs logical 
linux-swap
10505.000 10825

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Doing this seems like the right idea with the right numbers, but if parted is
wrong .... 

remove the existing swap space                                          rm 8
extend the existing / to cover the old swap                     resize 7 
2070.910 6408
make a new 4gb /home fs where NTFS ends                         mkpartfs 
logical ext2 8457 12553
        (This would preserve NT)
make a new 320MB swap fs at the end of /home            mkpartfs logical 
linux-swap 12554 12874
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Then I copy old /home to the new /home, edit /etc/fstab, /sbin/lilo etc ....


Bottom Line -- I'm not sure if NT is where parted says it is or if Disk Admin is
correct. 

I'm using parted 1.4.21 from the boot disk image -- who's right parted or NT???
I'm guessing that it's 
Parted, but I need to be sure about it.


TY

scoop