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Personally I would recommend doing any partitioning work prior to starting a Linux installation. In other words, rather than having the partitioning work be part of the installation process, treat it separately. That way, you'll already have the target partitions ready to go. Just another option to consider.
Along these lines, I consider BootIT NG from terabyteunlimited to be an excellent partitioning tool. -- J.W.
Yes - BootIt NG has a unique feature which allows more than 4 primary partitions per drive. Once you enable this feature, any primary partition can be added to or removed from the partition table for each boot item.
True, it's not freeware, but what I like best about it is its ability to resize and reformat just about any kind of partition. IMO it's a great tool.
In any event, my purpose in posting was not so much as to promote something I like, but rather to recommend that the partitioning step be addressed as an independent task to be completed prior to beginning the actual Linux installation. In my experience, that simplifies things, but you avoid possible issues with built-in partitioners. -- J.W.
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