recommended software?

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can anyone recommend some free partitioning software?

i made the ubuntu partition way too big and just need to equal out he two (xp/linux) partitions.

ta muchly!

 

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I don't know of any free software that could do this Moom. There is of course Partition Magic but that isn't free.

Just giving you a bump as nobody else has yet replied.

Pete

 

Again I don't know of any free software, but I use Partition Manager, its like Partition Magic, but cheaper.

 

thanks all. will be trying them promptly, bt now you mention it wagnerk, i do have tons of those discs lying around so i may get lucky!

 

Hi,

Not sure if your still looking but maybe this can help...

http://www.partimage.org/

Connick159

 

Sorry moominboy,

this is the one i meant to post...it's called QT-part and i use it for resizing partitions prior to loading syspreped XP images from a server.

hope this helps this time... http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/

cheers,
Connick

 

QTpart is on the Knoppix disk. I have just used it to change the partitions on a XP machine, and once I remembered to 'commit' I found it worked just fine.

Harry.

 

moomin,

It looks as if you already have been given the names of the tools to work for when using standard partitions with Linux. However, for further reference and future installs look into using lvm. It comes with the Debian installer, and most likely with Ubuntu and most other's too. It makes something similar to Windows dynamic disks in Linux. Once you set it up you can at any time resize, delete, actually move a partition to another physical disk in a computer, and add space from a second disk to an existing partition. It's really cool.

The only thing you have to watch out for is that you don't want to mount your / partition on an LVM partition. That will get you into trouble, but that's not really a problem as you can mix and match partitions in the same install. The root partition doesn't need to be very big when you create partitions for /usr, /home, /var, and /tmp using lvm. I created a standard / partition of 500 megs on one install and it was big enough because I created all the other partitions using lvm. The cool thing is that if you find you're running out of room on one partition you can take space away from another partition and add it to the one that's getting cramped.