Personal notes on running nftsresize

Boot your computer into Windows XP and run defrag on your volumes
Run chkdsk on the volume you want to resize
> chkdsk c: /f
Reboot and wait for the computer to finish the disk check
Reboot to Knoppix
Open a terminal and gain root 
$ su -
Check what partitions are available using fdisk
$ fdisk -l
Identify the NTFS partition you want to shrink
Run fdisk /dev/hda and take note of the original partition sizes for the partition
Run ntfsresize with the info option to check for smallest possible size
$ ntfsresize --info /dev/hda2
Add a couple of gig to the size outputted by ntfsresize --info
For example smallest reported size was 8478M + approx 2G = 10240M
Run ntfsresize with the check option
$ ntfsresize -s 10240M -n /dev/hda2
If the -n option is successful run it for real
$ ntfsresize -s 10240M /dev/hda2
If you get errors regarding the logfile not being initialized reboot into windows and run chkdsk c: /f  (where c: is the windows label for the partition you are shrinking)
run fdisk and delete the old ntfs partition and resize it to the new size
$ fdisk /dev/hda
use d to delete the partition
use n to create a new partition
**remember to start the partition on the same sector in my case it was 5
	specify the size of the new partition as +10240M
use t (and then L to get a list of options) to set the partition type to 7 HPFS/NTFS
use a to set the bootable flag on the partition (if it was before)
Remember to use w to write the partition info to disk
Reboot into windows let the disk check run
A new hardware device will be found - reboot again and it all should be OK