[Novalug] XP partition overfull

[Beartooth]

 	My present main machine has F7 and XP on separate hard 
drives, and is not a problem; this is about my former main 
machine, which has both on one. (Its use is to back up the main 
one, in case I manage to bollix that so bad it won't connect; or, 
of course, to run my proprietary GPS/topo map software 
simultaneously with linux on the main one.)

 	There are probably a few old map files on there that are 
neither on the XP drive of the present main machine, nor copied 
to a removable medium; I suppose I might possibly want some such 
file someday, but not desperately.

 	XP on the backitter-upper has been complaining of lack of 
space, especially since I copied a whole DVD of map data onto it. 
There is plenty of spare space on the linux partitions, and I 
thought of moving a gig or two : it's 9 and 21 now, and I could 
make it 12 and 18. (Linux is only using 9.18 GB of its 21.) I had 
thought of using Qtparted, which does make plain what is where.

 	Trying to launch qtparted from the gnome menu fails, with a 
cryptic error message : "unknown error."

 	So I tried this (and did get a fairly normal-looking 
qtparted window) :

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[root at localhost ~]# qtparted &
[1] 4167
[root at localhost ~]# No Implementation: Support for opening ntfs file 
systems is not implemented yet.
Error: File system has an incompatible feature enabled.
Error: File system was not cleanly unmounted!  You should run e2fsck. 
Modifying an unclean file system could cause severe corruption.
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 	But man e2fsck is clearly meant to intimidate the likes 
of me, and does.

 	So is there any safe way to give the fool thing any more space? 
Or am I looking at just hosing it?

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Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Double Retiree,
Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User, with precious 
(very precious) little idea where up is.