parted > gparted ?

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 01:32 +0100, Gerald Dachs wrote:
>  >
>  >> Am Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:33:22 +0800
>  >> schrieb SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux <i-ubux at synass.net>:
>  >>
>  >>> Why parted ?
>  >>> Why NOT GParted ??
>  >>>
>  >> Why not fdisk and dd?
>  >
>  > I am sure, not only me, as newbie, had appreciated your
>  > more detailed experience and reason/s why YOU name FDISK and DD !?
>  >
>  > Well, I can tell you one of my reason:
>  > I am not UN-familiar with command lines !
>  > A GUI indeed, especially as newbie, is a good help to see and learn !!
>  >
>  > I am sure:
>  > With FDISK and DD my mess had ended in a real disaster last
>  > weekend !!! ;-((
>  >
>     Guys you can create a real mess if you use fdisk and dd without
>  first reading how they work. And then experiment with them. I am writing
>  rather slowly a paper on using these tools and exactly how to use them.
>  It is long and I plan to put it on my web page when it is complete. As
>  for parted and gparted which are exactly the same they both will not
>  work with ext3 file systems. I tried both and got the same result.

Please note that for manipulating NTFS partitions you can use the
excellent ntfs-3g utilities (see what packages come up when you search
for ntfs).

Regards, Gernot