partition manager for linux

mrosati · 05-10-2004, 02:32 PM

hi!
i usually use partition magic under windows to manage my partitions, is there any program very similar to partition magic for linux?

thanks

matteo

Tinkster · 05-10-2004, 02:38 PM

If you "usually use ... to manage partitions" maybe your
ideas on partitioning need a reconsideration :}

Cheers,
Tink

Tuttle · 05-10-2004, 02:47 PM

I use cfdisk to partition. When I open partition magic in windows, sometimes it finds errors (persumably caused by cfdisk) and asks me if I want to fix them. Is this bad practice tink? does partition magic do different things than cfdisk? Please enlighten me man:~)

mrosati · 05-10-2004, 02:55 PM

well tinkaster, i use cfdisk too but i find that utility very restrictive, there are very few options, for example resizing and moving partitions... moreover there arent GUI and i find this very UNconfortable!

bruno buys · 05-10-2004, 03:40 PM

there's qtparted, a parted with a qt gui. Very nice, but not as advanced as pm.

mrosati · 05-11-2004, 03:21 AM

thank you, i'll try to downloiad it!

matteo

Tuttle · 05-13-2004, 07:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tuttle
I use cfdisk to partition. When I open partition magic in windows, sometimes it finds errors (persumably caused by cfdisk) and asks me if I want to fix them. Is this bad practice tink? does partition magic do different things than cfdisk? Please enlighten me man:~)

I just realised that my version of partition magic doesn't support reiser - doh!

Tinkster · 05-13-2004, 07:50 PM

For all I know at this stage the Arconis
DiskManager is the only tool that can
handle Reiser ....

Cheers,
Tink

Tuttle · 05-13-2004, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tinkster
For all I know at this stage the Arconis
DiskManager is the only tool that can
handle Reiser ....

Damn, windows only again!

Tinkster · 05-13-2004, 08:23 PM

Which brings us back to the topic of pro-active
rather than reactive partitioning ;) ... invest a few
minutes of thought before you start doing things :)

Cheers,
Tink

Tuttle · 05-14-2004, 06:20 AM

I totally agree tink, I always put aside twice as much space as I think I'll need for any partition and (thanks to my new 120gb hard disk) make two or three more spare partitions for future use. So many times I have started from scratch just because I got stuck with a bad layout of partitions.

PolyPerception · 05-14-2004, 09:03 AM

mrosati:

In theory you could:

Purchase Acronis Partition Expert 2003
Go over to a friends house that has both Windows and a CD burner.
Run Acronis PartitionExpert from a live CD*

* Acronis products have the ability to create live CDs, that have the particular product on the CD. Yes it is a waste of a CD as it only burns ~ 10MB to the CD, it sometimes can be a life saver.

Just a thought [of an option]

QuakerJ · 06-08-2004, 06:12 AM

I like 7tools Partition Manager. GUI and resizes (even reduces) partitions on the fly. But it is not a freebie. Cost about 22UKP two years ago - it may be more now. The version of Partition Magic that I bought says that there is an error on one of my disks which it cannot repair. But everything else (fdisk, disk druid, parted, Partition Manager, linux, grub, even W2000) find no problem with the disk. And 7 tools don't bombard you with endless details of their latest product/version - Power Quest take note.

QuakerJ