GNU Parted is getting there, but it'll be a little while before I'd trust it
with my data. If you want to use it, do a backup first. For more info, look
at http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/.
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 20:18, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> What about parted?
>
> Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > I don't think that discdrake can do non-destructive partitioning (yet).
> > That is a very complex thing to do, and you will need something like
> > PartitionMagic or System Commander to achieve it. Note that these two
> > programmes don't support ReiserFS, only ext2 and swap partitions.
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 04:01, Johnny Kwan wrote:
> > > I got the GUI diskdrake running. However, I don't know how to use it
> > > to give the linux partition more diskspace and reduce the size of the
> > > windows partition. Of course, without loosing data. Thanks.
> > >
> > > s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Linux has a utility that does the same thing. Diskdrake. Located at
> > > > /usr/sbin/diskdrake But yeah, partition magic can do the same thing
> > > > from inside windows (or actually dos). I think I trust disdrake more
> > > > (I have partition magic on my other machine, it's okay, but slow!)
> > > >
> > > > On Sunday 17 December 2000 03:01, you wrote:
> > > > > I am running out of diskspace with my Linux partition. Is it ok
> > > > > for me
> > >
> > > to
> > >
> > > > > use partition magic to reduce the size of the windows partition,
> > > > > and allocate more disk space to the linux partition? I just want
> > > > > to make
> > >
> > > sure
> > >
> > > > > Linux is ok with that before I proceed. Thanks.
> > > > >
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