parted

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
> Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
>  > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >>     I have been working with parted and kind of like it. The # parted
>  >>  print is nice since I don't need to figure out about how big the
>  >>  partition is. It tells me in English :-)
>  >>
>  >>     The capability to cp copy a directory to another is interesting. Has
>  >>  anyone used this or heard anything about it?
>  >>
>  >>     Re-sizing a partition looks interesting too. I need to do that if
>  >>  possible. I find that many tasks seem to need to be done from another
>  >>  system like the live CD.
>  >>
>  >>     Any help with possible good or bad things to say about parted would
>  >>  be a big help to me.
>  >>
>  >
>  > The good: it generally works
>  >
>  > The bad: unless you have really a new version, there many not be
>  > support to read, modify or delete NTFS partitions, or even to do
>  > anything to EXT3 partitions.
>  >
>  > The really bad (not a criticism of parted per se): if you've used
>  > parted, you probably won't be able to sensibly use Partition Magic or
>  > some other partition software on the disk. And vice versa.
>  >
>  > Hope that helps,
>  >    Gernot
>  >
>  >
>     Thanks, and just what I wanted. I will try it since I don't own
>  Partition Magic :-)
>
>  It at least reads ext3 partitions and it is version GNU Parted 1.7.1 and
>  is on Ubuntu 1.71 that is not the newest. Wish me luck. If not lucky I
>  may not be here for some time :-)

Heh! Good luck. Also,make sure you understand how to reinstall grub in
your MBR, how grub hard disk and partition numbering differs from that
of unix and how those differ from that of parted! A complete written
copy of parted output, and your /etc/fstab (and output from df -kh or
similar) can help to avoid confusion later.

Cheers, Gernot