On 2/12/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lan Barnes wrote:
> On Sun, February 11, 2007 10:41 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>> On 2/11/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> My wife is buying a new laptop for her work. She wants not to leave
>>> Linux
>>> behind, but needs the windoze. Everything is Vista now (apparently the
>>> sales person wasn't even enthusiastic, but watcha gonna do?).
>>>
>>> Is there any problem in defragging and using fips to chamge the HD
>>> partitions in Vista?
>>>> The machine has an 80 G HD. I figure 50 G for M$, 30 G for FC 5.
>>> Comments?
>> I think that fips is so last-century.
>>
>> Probably your best bet is the Gnome partition editor gparted.
>> Available as a handout at installfests if I am there.
>>
>> Available for download at < http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ >
>>
>>
>
> Examination shows it has a bootable iso.
>
> The real thrust of my question was, is there something about Vista that
> makes this ill advisable?
Does Vista use guid partition table?
If so, does fips work with guid partition tables?
I think that the libparted apps are supposed to support them.
So, .. does gparted? Um, I kinda remember looking into this before, but
forget the answer <sigh>.
..cdl?
The documentation for libparted, which is the underlying software for
gparted, says it supports guid partition tables. I believe that the
gparted GUI makes this work, but am not 100% sure. Experience with
other people's computers at InstallFests is pretty sparse and
intermittent.
To the best of my memory, successful repartitioning has been done on a
few computers that were new enough to have guid partition tables.
Either with Gparted or with the partition editor that comes with SuSE
distributions, which is Qtparted. Same underlying library, different
GUI. Dont remember which of those two comes with KNOPPIX.
How come there is so much character-stream commonality between GUI and
guid? Enough to comfuse almost anyone.
carl
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