parted > gparted ?

Fri Feb 22 23:33:22 UTC 2008

On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 15:04 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >   
>     Well it is like this: parted will still not work with and ext3 file 
> system. It doesn't work and the error message is an uncompatable  file 
> system. So the heck with  parted :-) ;-)
> 
> 
>     I got mad and from my live CD I used 'dd' to copy this Ubuntu with 
> all it's stuff from /dev/hda8 to /dev/hda2. It did it and here I am now. 
> I always have to read info dd to know what to do. It IS weird but it 
> works fine obviously.
> 
>     Now I will get the rest of the changes done and be happy. The SATA 
> hard drive removed and the IDE drive partition setting repaired with fdisk.
> 
>     What a mess but it is coming along.
> 
> Karl

Hi Karl
Why parted ?
Why NOT GParted ??
Maybe you find GParted already in your "System" - "Administation" as
"Partiton Editor" ???

Well, Ubuntu's GParted is still version 0.3.4.3 !
There are already higher versions: A LiveCD with 0.3.4.11 wich works
better and faster !!
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828
A phantastic tool !

There is a new team also to continue with its develepment: Latest
version 0.3.5 !!!
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/news.php

I would love to replace the Ubuntu GParted 0.3.4.3 to be replaced at
least with 0.3.4.11 
the latest one from the previous team !?

On the other hand:
Manipulations like done with GParted are done better without the system
running and 
therefor the LifeCD is a superb solution !!!

One more thing, a personal experience:
Partition Magic nor another tool I use was able to shrink my XPP/NTFS
partition !
GParted 0.3.4.11 worked like a charm !!

For me it's a MUSThave !!! ;-D

Cheers, svobi