partition/format tool?

[Thomas Sperre]

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 17:17:18 D. R. Evans wrote:
> Thanks for the responses.
>
> I ended up using my one remaining Mandriva system and diskdrake. After
> considerable thought, I decided I was just too scared to use something I
> hadn't used before for this task. I'm always paranoid about the tool
> working on the wrong disk (or me telling it by accident to work on the
> wrong disk).

Sometimes a safe bet is a good one, and I am not criticizing your choice here, 
but I think that now that you have some more relaxed setting you should take 
a look at gparted, and become familiar with that.  I am confident you will 
find it willing to serve your purposes in the future. I think that it may be 
even more tested than the Mandriva tool, due to more users on debian/buntu 
and gnome-whatever systems that all have this tool in their repos . 

I just think it will be a lot simpler for you in the future to avoid having to 
boot another computer with another distro for your disk management tasks. :-)