[Techtalk] partitioning under linux

[Miriam English]

I've had an easy time of manipulating lots of drive partitions with 
gparted. It is easy and intuitive.

A word of warning: back everything up. I've never lost anything with 
gparted, but when fiddling with partitions the risk is always there.

I know you didn't specifically say you wanted to resize a Windows 
partition, but if at any point you decide to then do defragment it first 
and be aware that XP and Windows7 seem to stick some system stuff in the 
middle of the disk address space which risks getting clobbered. Be 
conservative in your Windows changes.

Using gparted to resize, move, delete, create Linux partitions, swap 
partitions, and any of several other format partitions is very simple 
and easy.

Note that if you want to use solid-state flash-memory drives (such as SD 
cards, thumbdrives, etc) then be aware that you need to be careful of 
several quirks of that hardware so that whatever partitioning and 
formating program you use doesn't radically shorten the drive's life.

Best wishes,

	- Miriam


Gnat Alie wrote:
> I have heard that gparted is the best program for partitioning under linux.
> I'm using Fedora 18 KDE. Is there a better option or is gparted the best?
> It looks nice. I want to delete and resize and possibly move & create
> partitions.
>
> If I delete my swap space, can I then re-create the swap space? If so, will
> it be last in the partition table? My problem is I think windows on my
> tri-booted mac machine wants to boot from partition 4 and it's currently on
> partition 5 (and my swap is in the 4th spot).
>
> I'd also like to resize my swap and linux partitions.
>
> Thanks.
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