Parted

[Steven Davies-Morris]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 19:20 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>> 
>>> Well parted will not work either.
>>> 
>> It does
>> 
>> 
>>> It sure seems from the man pages that a lot of the so-called 
>>> partition tools do not do what they are supposed to do based on
>>>  their man page. It is really sad.
>>> 
>> 
>> The man pages and tools are fine, you must learn how to use them
>> 
>> 
>>> This is hard to stuff and they are wrong.
>>> 
>> It can be hard if you have little experience with them. But no, 
>> they are not wrong. Why don't you use a live CD and use gparted 
>> with its nice clicky interface?
>> 
>> 
>> 
> I can do that. I have the liveCD and gparted. I prefer parted and 
> might do it that way. But I expect it will not work based on 
> earlier work.
> 
> Karl

I use the standalone Gparted CD all the time when doing disk reorg
operations. It has been very useful as I brought my old customers'
servers forward onto more modern equipment (specifically SATA drives).
It's currently at version 0.3.9.4 (stables) as a 90mb ISO image that
boots debian. I wouldn't be without it in my portable bag of tricks
(tools-on-CD). It's saved me a lot oftime and aggravation.

Gparted can be d/l from sourceforge here:
<http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php>
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