[Ilugc] open source partition editor
- From: girishvenkatachalam@xxxxxxxxx (Girish Venkatachalam)
- Date: Mon Oct 9 13:50:47 2006
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 05:43:03PM +0530, Parthan wrote:
satheesh kumar wrote:
tel me some of the open source partition editors with GUI (like partition
magic)
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Satheesh Kumar M,
MIT.
GParted, as good as Partition Magic :)
This is an anecdote I anyway was planning to share with everyone at ILUGC.
I installed Win XP and Debian with a 55 25 GB ratio.
I must have been foolish when I did that since I thought, "Hey my Windoze
partition can record TV, so I need a big fat disk..."
But guess what. After working for many moons :-) I got my TV card working much
much better than the company supplied drivers for Windoze. Even tuning will not
work properly in Windoze.
With the result that I never booted into Windoze since.
Then my partition in Debian started getting filled up like mad. I was at my
wit's end.
Until the moment I heard about gparted in a FreeBSD mailing list.
I downloaded their liveUSB.. didnt work.
Then I booted their liveCD. Wow man! Marvellous piece of software. It is
serious fun.
I shrunk the Windoze partition thus freeing up space.
Then I hit cfdisk and to my dismay I cannot further partition the free space.
So I just did a mkfs.ext3 and added a mount point in /etc/fstab.
I think I should have actually gone in for XFS but then it is okay. :-)
I think gparted will drive paritionmagic out of business.
Whenever a free tool does better than a proprietary tool it is time to party.
:-)
gparted is both graphical and easy to use and it is very well written.
I am unfortunately unable to comment on the various other alternatives proposed.
regards,
Girish
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