[plug] creating more partitions

[Chris Caston]

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 15:20, smclevie wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I wonder if someone could tell me the simplest and easiest way to create a 
> couple more partitions on a drive?
> 
> The drive is fully utilized (no space not partitioned) and I want to create 
> a couple more partitions.
> 
> How to do without pain and loss?
> 
> It is a Debian stable with Ext3 partitions at the moment.
> 
> Use 'parted'??  Is reliable??  No special tricks??  Will mount successfully??
> 

Yes parted with partgui is probably the closest to what you are looking
for. Try the Gentoo based systemrescuecd
(http://www.systemrescuecd.org/)

For an iso that you can burn to cd and boot from.

It's not perfect, however, I have had issues resizing vfats that were
imaged using partimage (which can't *yet* expand an image to fill the
destination drive. At least the last time I tried.) 

> (I think in a Windows environment one would use 'Partition Magic')

Yes. You don't need to use it from Windows in fact it's best to boot of
disks or from a CD. Partition magic is usually more stable for doing
things for Windows customers but the open source partition solutions
will have better support for non-mainstream, better performance file
systems. Partition magic of course is not free but I believe that is a
Soltek motherboard you can buy that it comes bundled with. I'm not sure
which one. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve.
> 
> 
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