On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 05:27, Brian Hanks wrote:
> I've been messing with RedHat systems and partitioning (fdisk & parted)
> for many years and I've always thought that a graphical partitioning
> tool should be available after the initial install. Like you, I even
> posted these thoughts a couple of years back. The interesting part is
> that at that time, I did receive a reply from one of the RedHat guys.
> He basically said that Disk Druid would eventually be made available for
> use after the install. Since that was well over two years ago, I doubt
> that we are going to see it any time soon.
Yeah, I heard the same thing, but never thought I'd need it; I'm an
fdisk kinda guy, and always have been. But what I was attempting was
such a small and simple thing, I was hoping to forgo the usual
hunting-for-the-command-line.
> This leaves us with two choices for graphical partitioning after
> install:
> 1. QtParted - This GUI for the parted utility is available for download
> at qtparted.sourceforge.net. I've used it many times before and it
> seems to work fine, but its functionality is very limited.
> 2. DiskDrake - Switch to Mandrake and use their DiskDrake utility. I'm
> not a fan of the Mandrake distribution, so this isn't a viable solution
> for me.
>
> If anyone else has other alternatives, let us know.
It doesn't look like many alternatives exist...maybe Partition
Magic? I have two problems with that:
1. I'd have to install Windows to run it, right?
2. I really don't trust a Windows-mostly tool to guard my Linux
data. Still too many horror stories come to mind.
Oh, well- I learned what was holding up the process, and the command
line to overcome it...but I'm still agast at why a 10g drive couldn't
hold a 7.something-g drive. Maybe there's (A LOT!) of space occupied by
the RAID stuff?
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