Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: Fragmentation

[Mark Haney]

Duncan wrote:
> Peter Humphrey posted <43F5AC5E.9060001@××××××××××.uk>, excerpted below,
> on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:58:38 +0000:
>
>
>> I don't mind using whatever tools are available for the initial partitioning
>> scheme, but this box gets treated pretty much as a development machine
>> would, with partitions moving up and down and being copied between disks far
>> more often than lots of people would find comfortable!
>>
>> A nice, easy, graphical program like Partition Magic is just the thing for
>> that. I don't have to have a Windows partition to run it from, as version 8
>> can boot from its own CD. That's a DOS version of course, so pretty
>> partition labels are out, but they can easily be changed with tunefs later.
>>
>
> I don't know if the new Mandriva still has it or not, and if so the name
> may well have changed, but back when I was running Mandrake (8.x, 9.x),
> the first CD of their install disk had disk-drake on it, to help with the
> partitioning of the drive during install.  As I mentioned, it has a very
> pretty graphical interface that any Partition Magic user should take  to
> immediately.  It's only a CD image's worth of download, and the CD is
> bootable, so it might be worth trying out.
>
> It may also be possible to get the RPM to run on a Gentoo system, but I'm
> not sure what sort of dependency issues one would have to tackle, first.
> Maybe I'll try it someday and see.
>
>
Go get the System Rescue CD www.sysresccd.org.  It's bootable from CD, 
has great utilities for recovery and includes QtParted, which I've used 
on many occasions with no problems.  I keep a copy of that CD handy at 
all times.


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