Partitioning tool ?

[Robert Parker]

On Monday 06 December 2004 21:02, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 01:57 +1100, Robert Parker wrote:
> > On Monday 06 December 2004 00:44, jiyuu0 wrote:
> > > qtparted
> >
> > I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. My bad experience with it is with
> > Yoper so I have had no reason to trust it with Ubuntu Warty which is of
> > similar vintage.
>
> What exactly happened with it?  What did it do?  What were you doing
> with it?

It was a while ago now, but it did end up with a couple of partitions 
overlapped to some extent. The outcome was that I could not even start cfdisk 
so I had to zero the first block using dd, then rebuild my partitions using 
cfdisk. I think from memory all I was trying to do was to define a partition 
type with qparted.

Further to my original comment, I have been informed that partitioning with 
Mandrake 10 + qparted fubars any chance of dual booting with Windows XP but 
Mandrake 10 + cfdisk has no such problem. 

There was a problem with Fedora 2 wrecking a Windows XP dual boot which I 
have been able to overcome by first defining the partitions and creating the 
file systems using Mdk10 + cfdisk then installing Fedora 2 on top of that.

I'm sure this is a comparatively recent problem, starting around the time of 
Fedora 2 and Suse 9.0.

It will be repaired I'm sure, but really cfdisk does just about all I need 
with maybe the odd use of ntfsresize.

Bob

 
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