partition/format tool?

[Thomas Sperre]

On Monday 14 May 2007 19:52:00 Andrew Syrewicze wrote:
> On Monday 14 May 2007 13:40:22 D. R. Evans wrote:
> > In Mandriva, there is a nice Mandriva-written graphical utility for
> > partitioning and formatting hard drives (diskdrake).

> > a similar reasonable idiot-proof utility in Kubuntu?

> QTparted. Great program. It'll do the job.

QT parted is not a great program unfortunately. Gparted is in a much better 
shape and is more fail-safe if you just need to get the job done. (I don't 
like to say this, as I always wish for more K in Kubuntu! However, it is the 
truth.)

Watch for the gparted live disk, or alternatively, you could do what I do at 
disc partition fiddling time: boot with the kubuntu live-DVD and then in a 
konsole ask for gparted to arrive with "sudo apt-get install gparted".
Once that is done, launch gparted and get the job done.