On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 05:06:40PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>
> Also, as this is the first installation party I am attending, how do you
> go about reducing the partitioned size of the existing disk? Anyone has
> a legal copy of PartitionMagic? Any open source alternatives?
>
> Shachar
>
parted?
Description: The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program
GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy,
resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful
for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising
disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. This package
contains the Parted binary and manual page.
.
This package is of the parted1.6 pre-release, it is a beta
version of the next minor version release of parted.
Please be aware that as this is a pre-release, this version
of parted has not been extensively tested, and may have
bugs. It is recommended that you use the tried and tested
parted (1.4) packages if you do not want to risk the
possibility of losing your data.
.
Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS and
PC98 disklabels/partition tables, as well as a 'loop' (raw
disk) type which allows use on RAID/LVM. Filesystems which
are currently fully supported are ext2, ext3, fat (FAT16
and FAT32) and linux-swap. Parted can also detect HFS (Mac
OS), JFS, NTFS, ReiserFS, UFS (Sun and HP) and XFS
filesystems, but cannot create, remove, resize or check
these filesystems yet.
.
The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause
massive data loss. While there are no known bugs at the moment,
they could exist, so please back up all important files before
running it, and do so at your own risk.
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