Resize NTFS

[Clay Fandre <clay@fandre.com>]

Are there any free tools to resize an NTFS partition? Is Partition Tragic any 
better at doing it? (version 4.0 didn't work so well for me.)

Or does anyone have a suggestion on how to backup and restore an NTFS partition? 
(Either through NT or Linux) I have an NTFS partition taking up the entire disk 
and I want to load Linux.

BTW: I need NT for business purposes, so blowing away the NTFS partition is NOT 
an option. (Although I would love to do it.)