Jeff Malka wrote: > > Is there a linux equivalent to Partition Magic. > > I own a copy of PM and I know that PM is compatible with linux. But PM uses > Linux will read a much larger hard drive than the bios can read in dos. > Therefore linux can read and use partitions beyond what the bios can see in > dos. Presently PM cannot handle the HD part beyond what the bios sees And how big would that be Jeff? My PM has no trouble looking at 30gig partitions. I think what you're saying is that if your bios is old enough not to deal with large drives, PM won't be able to help. One thing I have found is that while it seemed fully compatible with DiskDrake up until 7.1, partitions made with PM are, in some way, "not recognized" (error from Diskdrake) during installation. The odd thing is that if I tell diskDrake to auto-allocate, it allocates exactly the way PM had it partitioned. This suggests to me that it's reading the partition table but that the setup routine is at fault. > because it really runs in DOS and not really under linux. That is why I > wonder if there is a similar utility that actually runs under linux to > address the part of the hd beyond bios under dos. I haven't seen anything with the slick interface of PM that runs directly under Linux (though I always run PM from a floppy/DOS). parted is probably the closest you're going to find right now. Cheers --- Larry
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