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Skriven 2006-11-30 21:46:00 av GORDON HUFF (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ED VANCE
Ärende: Re: Partd
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Ed Vance, Gordon Huff, Charles Scaglione, Jeff Guerdat
And Robert Fowler were talking about partd

EV> I searched for partd with ASK.COM and GOOGLE 
EV> and all I could find was U.S. Medicare Part D hits.

I'm sorry. I mis-typed ... it should be PARTED.
The exact files I used are difficult to find now.

In my memory, I thought I had a GNU/Win version of 
PARTED which used FreeDOS or DrDOS. To top it off -
there is a GPARTED which might stand for GNU-Parted 
or Gnome-Parted.

There are other freeware partition tools.

CAUTION : only *one* parted command works with an NTFS volume.
Use a 'scratch' disk to learn "partitioning" - only tinker with
an NTFS disk with a tool rated for it, ie Partition Magic 8, etc.

Use the following pointer to keep this straight:

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/manuals/unix/parted-1.6.25.1/parted_7.html#SEC7

which says in part:
" If you want run Parted on a machine without GNU/Linux installed, 
or you want to resize a root or boot partition, you will need to 
use a boot disk."

(All these download sites are dead) 

"Download the boot disk (i.e. partboot.img) and a 
root disk (eg: partroot-1.6.25.1.img). "

Therefore, google for "partboot" and "partroot" and you can end up at:

http://ftp.azc.uam.mx/mirrors/gnu/parted/bootdisk/

You also need to come to grips with the RAWRITE utility program.
Probably also need to figure out how to unzip a .GZ file (!)

EV>Do you have a URL so I could d/l partd so 
EV>I could play with it?

Okay - that horse is dead ... next

EV> Do you have a URL so I could d/l partd so 
EV> I could play with it?

JG> BTW, it's parted, not partd...
CS> GNU Parted can be downloaded separately from here:

CS> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

Yup - excellent advice.
 
CS>But most likely would be easier to use from 
CS> a Linux distro live CD. Or, as I recommended 
CS> before - just download the Live CD version of
CS> GPARTED.  Burn the ISO to a CD.

About 29 MB. Excellent advice.

CS> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

Is this a GUI ??

CS>Just burn the ISO to CD using a program like Nero or EasyDVD.  Once
CS>the CD has been prepared, boot from it.  The machine will boot and
CS>show (after some menus - all self explanatory) the partitions on 
CS> your hard drive(s).  You can now non-destructively move, expand,
CS> shrink, create, etc. partitions.  Plus more.

CS> Not as fully functional as Partition Magic or BootIt Next 
CS> Generation but for most folks it's all that's needed.

RF> Look at www.linux-1u.net/partitions/ under the section Partition
RF> Tools.  You should find gnu.org partd.
JG> You generally can't run partd outside of Linux.  There's LiveCD ISO
JG> images to be found here:

True - once you have the floppies or CD the Linux stuff
Is almost invisible.

Whew!
Regards, Gordon

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