[ltp] Partition Editor (WAS: HELP..Installing RedHad 7.2 on a Thinkpad 600E)

Thomas Hood linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
28 Dec 2001 20:33:05 -0500


On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 21:40, Cameron Hooper wrote:
> I used parted to prepare for my install of redhat 7.2. Very good tool, but
> be aware that its support for ext3 is not yet complete. It was able to
> resize an existing ext3 partition (an undocumented feature I think) but it
> was not able to create one. Better at least than Partition Magic which 
> didn't understand ext3 partitions at all. Showed them as full and so would 
> not allow me to resize them.

parted also does not understand NTFS filesystems.

Partition Magic is costly, but it does work nicely.




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