Partitioning Drive (71.5g)

[glch]

How can I partition my drive without having to buy an 80.00 software program (Partition Magic). The distro I am using is Linux Mandrake 7.2 Power Pack (I bought it saturday). Please help me partition my drive without losing any data.

[bigrigdriver]

Here are some free partition managers you may want to check out: http://sourceforge.net/projects/partimage http://sourceforge.net/projects/surprise http://www.gnu.org/software/parted

Or, shareware:
http://www.zdnet.com and search for Partition Commander (29.95)

I don't know anything about them (reliability, etc), just that they are abailable. I use Partition Magic.

[ 19 September 2001: Message edited by: bigrigdriver ]

[Mr.Shifty]

dont know if this helps but what about FIPS?

[s1nn]

mandrake comes with a resizer called diskdrake

[glch]

I know DiskDrake says it resizes, but when i was in (i am guessing diskdrake) and I clicked resize, it said data will be lost (all). And all the other sharewares, do they offer no data loss?

[glch]

ttt(to the top) (is this allowed?)

[bdg1983]

Originally posted by glch:
<STRONG>ttt(to the top) (is this allowed?)</STRONG>

I personally don't like that practice, but it's better than cr :mad:ssp :mad:sting.

Actually the suggestion to try Gnu 'Parted' could be what you are looking for. It's supposed to be similar to Partition Magic and the price is right.

[glch]

Okay, can Gnu Parted run in windows?

[bdg1983]

I'm not sure as I've never tried Parted.

Did you have a look to see what platforms it will run on? http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/

[glch]

From what I can tell it runsonly on Linux, but it does say (and I quote)"Currently, Parted only runs under GNU/Linux. If you don't have GNU/Linux, then a boot disk image is available on all mirrors in the /gnu/parted/bootdisk directory.

So does this mean I an make a boot disk, then get into that once I boot my computer, and then make a ext2 partition?

[bdg1983]

Originally posted by glch:
<STRONG>From what I can tell it runsonly on Linux, but it does say (and I quote)"Currently, Parted only runs under GNU/Linux. If you don't have GNU/Linux, then a boot disk image is available on all mirrors in the /gnu/parted/bootdisk directory.

So does this mean I an make a boot disk, then get into that once I boot my computer, and then make a ext2 partition?</STRONG>

Yes I believe it does.

Also keep www.bootdisk.com (http://www.bootdisk.com) handy. Great site that someone posted here.

[LiNuts]

Try this: www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ (http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/)
It is the partition mamager i use , it is just as good as P.M. and you can use it in windows.
Cheers
LiNuts