nondestructive partition manager

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 07.01.2004 schrieb Trevor Smith um 16:05:
> Is there a name of the partition manager that comes with FC1? What is its 
> name?
> 
> Am I correct in assuming that it will perform similar functions (resize, move) 
> on partitions as Partition Magic does?
> 
> How safe is it on NTFS and Fat32 and ext(?) partitions?
> 
> Just checking before I jump in and accidentally wipe my Win2k system.

Fedora comes with parted. From fedora.us you can get the graphical
version qtparted. To learn more about parted see
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html and for qtparted
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/. As far as I see they differ in
capability to resize different filesystems.

In general: before resizing a partition with data on it DO A BACKUP.
(This is also an advice Partition Magic will give you before operating.)

Alexander


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