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- sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11This is basically a gparted tutorial. If you were reading this thinking there was some trick to not lose your data, there is not, its just all automatic in gparted.
The part that really boggles my mind is why someone bothered to make a tutorial for gparted because it must be one of the most user-friendly apps I have ever used.
This is _really_ basic stuff. - geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8and to add to that, avoid qtparted, it's just not in the same league as gparted. gparted is probably better than partition magic at this point.
- technerdy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Do you think thats a good technical decision? Based on the guilt/innocense of one member, even if he's the designer? A team of people who made it and a community of developers and contributors did a lot of work on Reiser, and it works really well in many situations. Many systems still run on it, some even critical systems in health care and defense.
- breakaway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"diggmirror" is a deliberate troll linking people to his 9/11 blog.
- Fordi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9That's the dumbest reason for dropping support of a filesystem I've ever heard.
No, seriously. What's a programmer's criminal record have to do with the ability to non-destructively edit something he worked on?
Even strictly on technical merits, fat16 is barely even used anymore; why not just drop support for that?
Douche. - bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Ok, honestly I haven't see this howto, but the last time I needed to resize my NTFS partition, I found out about gparted and just plain followed the wizards, and did it. I didn't need a howto, which brings me to my point...
People nowadays feel helpless without a howto and everyone and their moms are now making howto's and possibly making things a lot more complex than they need be. Some of these people are very well intentioned and that's fine, but there are some that are making howtos or pointing people to howtos for digg fame or just plain making money off ads. Let's keep remembering this, I know howto's are essential for certain things, but so is debugging and thinking for yourself and figuring things out. - Geckomind, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The LiveCD is very handy for Windows systems, too.
- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5My remark was sarcastic. Sorry I didn't add something to indicate this... like [tongue in cheek /]
- trieste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dugg just for not having "Without Loosing Data"
- aptmunich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Does the LiveCD work with intel based Macs?
- Fredx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i resized my partition and it killed my boot loader, don't believe everything you read
- bllambert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A great program. The screenshot reminded me that my current Gparted LiveCD must be out of date. Digg for the reminder to download again. Thanks.
I have a habit of installing, tinkering until it breaks, and reinstalling various linux distributions. Gparted, and fixmbr keep my windows drive sitting pretty. - mr1337, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I have a couple Live CD's with Gparted already on them... But this one looks like a keeper. It has NTFS support built right in. No need to grab packages from a repository. *Adds to Live CD collection*
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2gparted and qtparted use parted for most operations but resort to the tried and trusted ntfsresize command for resizing NTFS partitions. I had pretty bad luck with qtparted - the version I use wasn't integrated with ntfsresize very well. I've had no problems with gparted. You rely on qt/gparted to do all the calculations and numbers for you.
- sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've only used the gparted on the ubuntu live cd but it also has ntfs support...
I just assumed it came with it. - strabes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1see above
- kickarse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone that wants to do this via PXE look here...
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=139 - Halvy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is not necessarily a bad thing.
it could be a safety feature (undocumented).
formating doesn't normally delete or wipe a disk ... other tools are made to *really* make your data go away (like the shred command in Linux).
having ALL the programs like qtparted, gparted, parted, cfdisk (and others) is the only way to make sure you can get a job done all the time :) - PRlME, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Gparted is good with respects to qtparted after all it was one of the best.
Q: not that its a problem but when i format my drive with Gparted i still find my data still there, any one had this problem? - Fordi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@sishgupta:
GParted is a front end for various command-line utilities. As a result, things NTFS support only exists on systems with the NTFS utilities installed (like ubuntu). - rbond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I definitely know that it works. I have successfully done a triple boot for the mac book and booted off of a ubuntu live cd and I can verify that the partition tools work correctly.
- silicon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1didn't work with my raid5 array either yet, had to resize it manually.
- Koppie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just discovered gparted recently, it's the best. Still had to futz with /etc/fstab by hand, though. It'd be nice if there was a gui for that, too! (Yes, I know, this makes me a total newb, but is it wrong to want to be able to get under the hood of my linux distro and have it be easy? Isn't that the whole point of gparted: not everything has to have a learning curve!)
- riah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doesn't work with LVM partitions yet :'(
- nalmeth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Gparted picked up my 300 gig usb/firewire device just fine
- LegendarySock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used Gparted a while ago to partition my disk and then install linux side by side with Windows. It is very well worth it.
- caseyd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can you use Gparted on a Macbook Pro? AND can you use it on external firewire drives?
- springah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1QTParted seems better as it let me set Active partitions - GParted didnt.
(theyre ment to be about the same, right?) - diqq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Nice!
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Gparted is like PartitionMagic (PM), but PM hasn't been updated for years :(
- Andrew89, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Hmm, just thinking why your not using an external media to save files (temporary or constant), so there won't happen anything while partioning hard discs.
Here are two intersting links, covering this topic:
http://www.consumersearch.com/www/internet/online-backup-services/review.html
http://www.onlinebackupguide.com
Greets,
Andrew - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Yes, this is a useless guide for idiots. No digg.
But, I must mention that you really should backup your vital data before using this software. I have, on more than one occasion, had file system damage caused by this program. It's a great piece of software, but it is still a little bit buggy and is not quite as mature as Partition Magic. - bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1If people didn't make howtos for everything, we wouldn't have laundry sized computer books, we would only have skinny books that only explained what needs to be explained (Kernighan+Rithie, etc..) and computer book publishers wouldn't like that. :-D.
On with the bloating and making useful literature harder to find by burying it amongst countless howtos and more and more hand-holding websites. - joshman5k, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3@diggmirrors,
Your link doesn't point to the proper duggmirror website. - schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -19/+5It still does Reiser(4)? Might as well just replace that with ext4 given the state of the trial... :-(
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