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- nZeeR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+45Cant tell you how often i use my GParted LiveCD, its a fantastic tool.
- djh816, on 10/10/2007, -1/+30Correction: YOU screwed up your partition using a very powerful tool.
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -4/+29Try the new fork, which had a major release last week:
Parted Magic 1.8 is out and it has some new features and many updated programs.
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| The Parted Magic team worked hard on this release and we hope you like it.
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http://partedmagic.com/news.html
http://partedmagic.com/index.html
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| Parted Magic is a Linux LiveCD/USB/PXE with its elemental purpose being to
| partition hard drives.
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| Parted Magic is the continuation of the GParted LiveCD project that I
| originated (GParted LiveCD versions greater than 0.3.3 are now the work of
| LarryT), and falls under the terms of the GPL.
`---- - Salgat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16I'm still content with my old gParted livecd from last year :)
- praveenmarkandu, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12dont be a dumb *****. RTFM. i downloaded the latest version and was able to resize my NTFS partitions.
- K3ITHK, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7They don't need MY help. I don't know what I'm doing.
- cyberoidx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6So did I, just because you aren't able to use a product, does NOT mean it sucks. You should avoid all kinds of Mp3 players, and stick to the shuffle. Who knows, you might get confused and start ranting about them too.
- stoanhart, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7i've resized vista partitions. no problem. plain old NTFS
- anjinash, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Yeah, what he said.
- evillawngnome, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Wonderful tool. This plus SpinRight and you've got a great disk maintenance suite.
For those saying that it doesn't do NTFS properly, i personally have never had any problems with the NTFS resizing, and i have used it on multiple occasions. Great all around tool, IMO. - anjinash, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I've used GParted at least once a week for about a year now and I've never had any problems with it. It kicks Partition Magic's ass up and down the proverbial block. If you had problems, I'm willing to venture that those problems were user error more than anything else.
- Lokomis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4YA RLY!
You don't believe it?
HABEEB IT! - sirmasterboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I have a friend who swears by GParted and uses it weekly like some of you. However, when he tried to resize an NTFS partition on my desktop, it screwed up everything, he couldn't believe it. Luckily i had a backup.
The tool is good but it DOES fail sometimes, why do you blame it on the user. Face it, the program isn't perfect... - MrSarcasm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Umm... I resisized my C: a few months ago with GParted's LiveCD.
- cyberoidx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It is sad that such a good program for sysadmin's is going down. Personally, I would do any thing that can be done (maintaing the website etc)
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Well you see liveCD's use this concept called a ram disc. If you have a lot of stuff then you need a large ram disc. That means a huge decompression period that sort of pisses people off. The point of a GParted liveCD is that it is loading as little as possible. This means the ram disc needn't be so large so decompression is quicker (if needed at all) and the system boots much faster as a result.
- notque, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2What was the point of that in this thread? who is blaming the user about anything? Go to a forum or something.
- wweasel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The argument about NTFS is getting a bit ridiculous. It seems plenty of people have used it to resize NTFS on many occasions, myself included. Some of us have had it fail and mess up the partition. That's happened to me once.
It's still a great program, and it would definitely be a loss to see it go. - jdhore1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I use my GParted CD probably weekly and it is very useful and great. Also, i love that it's so small and lightweight you can run it on anything and it'll work fine
- TheSeeker11, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Another advantage is the download size - 49 MB vs 700 MB.
- archlich, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I put mine on an old usb stick. Very handy indeed.
- Lokomis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I scoop out tumors with a rusty spoon and use them to butter my bread.
In fact (as they are two separate words), "I PICK THE GOD DAMN terror of the ***** gods out of my nose!" So give me my slack, son.
I may well be the cancer but, you, you will never be pink. - vagarach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Still, when I used gparted to free up (I shrunk the xp parition) around 8GB to install vista on, vista did actually detect that the partitioning wasn't 100% ok.
- Samurailink3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Try this :-
Recovery Is Possible
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ - gfnw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I see no mention of twinkies or their homes.
I'm afraid to say that you may infact be the cancer. - AzMoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I've generally been really happy with gParted, except for last month when I tried to to resize a RedHat 8 (ughhhh) partition on a VMWare ESX server and it simply would not do it. Worked great with Ubuntu and Slackware but not RH8. Granted, it was more than likely RH 8 that was the problem, as well as my severe lack of skills.
- allywilson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Just die.
- notque, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The newest one handles vms much better, and some of the newer vms at all.
- maybeway36, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The CD wouldn't start X11 on my intergrated 82815 graphics :(
I've used it before, it's a great CD. Knoppix includes GParted too, you can just press Alt+F2 and type:
kdesu gparted - airencracken, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Did you do a defrag first? You're supposed to.
- CircleFusion, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1So I guess the conclusion is to always do a backup before resizing any partition.
- sirmasterboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12 or 3 people above said that it failed only because of dumb users or user error, i was jsut staying that that isn't always the case and i provided an example of such a case.
- vagarach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Wow, he really is a monk! That's very unexpected!
- lowbot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Vista uses transactional and shadows copies. I believe its even a different version of ntfs. So I can imagine there might be some problems with reverse engineered tools like gparted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_NTFS#Transactional_NTFS - sirmasterboy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Do you know where i can get a decent defraging program. All the ones i've tried never move the data to the biginning of the drive, they just recopy the files into 1 fragment some random place on the drive.
I want a program that can consolidate all my files to the front of the drive so i can chop off a partiton from the end of the drive - db113456, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1I will post your article and link on my LUG, see what happens.
- puntloos, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2What is the advantage of gparted-livecd over knoppix? Knoppix is well maintained, and contains, amongst a couple of other things... gparted!
- zer0, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Vista is very sensitive to any changed to the partition structure. XP however works great with gparted. I use gparted to partition my drives before i install any OS.
- Gerbil_Juice, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2How's it feel to be the unsatisfied 1%?
edit: Also, I have no way of knowing that it wasn't just you making a mistake. - urbieta, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1catholic monk? give me a @$#^$%&%^&ing brake! lol ...I use systemrescuecd for gparted, betterluck next time! lol
- LukyJay, on 10/10/2007, -10/+2ORLY?
- atomic811, on 10/10/2007, -11/+2Jebus not happy with linux monk.
- ZephyrNinety, on 10/10/2007, -16/+3YEAH! It does need your help because it screwed up my partition. =|
- jaygee, on 10/10/2007, -14/+1I had huge problems trying to partition a hd on a windows vista laptop using gparted so I have no idea why anyone would care about this software. If it works then cool, update it.
- jdhore1, on 10/10/2007, -35/+3That's surprising...As the GParted LiveCD has sucked for about the past 6 months...It's gotten a bit too bloated and for some reason it's not as powerful as it was in around September 2006 (I can't do anything with HFS+ partitions now, can't resize NTFS and i think it's overall become a worse tool).
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