parted > gparted ?

[SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux]

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 07:33 +0800, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> 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

I have to correct an error and an recent (critical !?) experience:

1) I named Ubuntu's GParted as version 3.4.4 !
It's much more elder: 0.3.3-2 and was contributed for 6.10 !!

2) Working with such tools it is always recommended to backup before !!!
Since last weekend, with my disastrous Partition Reorganization I
experienced and 
played with GParted quite intensively and got my stuff quite well
done. ;-)

Quite fortunate I did not experience any problems with GParted. ;-))

But starting the Win XPP side today I got little shocked when a popup
appeared:
NO DISK ... and ff ... ;-O

Again I was quite furtunate: The error popup disappeared when XPP was
rebooted !

So, be careful !!!

Cheers, svobi