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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 12:06:10 -0500 From: Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com> To: svlug@svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Harddisk repartitioning troubles: solved by GNU Parted!! On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:26:19PM +0000, Ramkumar Sridharan wrote: > Thanks Bill, for your description of how you had to hack into system file > attributes to get partitioning done, 2 yrs ago. I m glad GNU has come up > with a solution that doesn't require such a complicated procedure anymore. Well, I'm glad you didn't have to go through the same trouble I did. :) > Using GNU Parted was completely hassle free. GNU Parted works only on > GNU/Linux, but I could easily create a linux boot-disk with Parted in it > (you can download boot-disk images from the GNU Parted site). I booted off > the disk, used Parted commands to resize my FAT32 partition and create a new > ext2 partition, within minutes. (total time < time taken to Defrag!!) The > documentation available at the GNU parted website is clear, concise and > complete. Wow. Parted sounds really neat. A side note: I'm not sure whether or not 50-meg distributions like the Linuxcare Bootable Toolbox (http://lbt.linuxcare.com/, formerly the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card) or the LNX-BBC (http://www.lnx-bbc.org/, which was forked from the Linuxcare BBC) already contain Parted (I imagine they probably would, but haven't checked), but I highly recommend them anyway. If you have a CD burner, you could burn a CD and copy Parted to a floppy disk (assuming they don't come with it already). I have to say, the beta version of the LBT is really slick -- unlike the old Linuxcare BBC, it doesn't automatically mount the hard disk partitions on bootup. However, It has a nice menu that lets you mount the host system's partitions. And it will check the fstab, and mount the other partitions in the proper place. *Very* nice when you're doing system repair. Every geek should have it in his or her arsenal. :) ===