Will diskdrake run from the ISO CD(s)?
oldgnome
At 10:18 9/20/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thursday 19 September 2002 10:12 pm, Michael Notforyou wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 20:30, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
>
> > > On Thursday 19 September 2002 06:40 pm, Steven Kopischke wrote:
> >>>> snip
> > > > Steven Kopischke
> > > > Green Bay, WI USA
> > >
> > > Steven:
> > > Looks good, and sounds like fun. One suggestion though: I've had better
> > > luck confining Partition Magic to the WIndows stuff only, and using the
> > > Mandrake tools for Linux. (Although it might have been operator error...
> > > Nah.)
> >
> > DO NOT use diskdrake ("linux tools") to resize an NTFS partition. YOU
> > WILL LOSE ALL YOUR DATA!!! DON'T DO IT! If in doubt, force
> > PartitionMagic to LEAVE UNPARTITIONED SPACE ON THE DRIVE. Then let
> > DiskDrake work on THAT ONLY!!!
> >
> > > -- cmg
> > >
>
>Michael:
>Errr, that's what I thought I wrote, albeit in a less emphatic mode. My
>apologies if it wasn't clear. My point was that I had a problem with using PM
>to manipulate Linux partitions in the past. (I can't remember the exact
>details, but it was probably back around 7.1/7.2 days.) I used PM to set up
>vaious Windows and linux partitions, do the formatting, etc. It seemed to
>work for a few days when a massive failure of the linux filesystem occurred.
>I didn't bother to do a root cause analysis, but since then I've confined PM
>usage to Windows partitions only, and DiskDrake to Linux partitions, and life
>has been good.
>
>And, if you stop and think about it, are there really any advantages to using
>PM for Linux? DiskDrake provides far more options, and is probably quicker.
>
>-- cmg
>
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