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RE: slightly ot but oracle/linux related

From: <k.sriramkumar_at_iflexsolutions.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 17:27:34 +0530
Message-ID: <10898BE7CA96D611988B000802255AAF05262E8E@fmgrt>


Hi,

        Had used a utility called system commander (from vcom) for shrinking = the NTFS partition and it did a decent job. Was able to install Fedora = by shrinking a single NTFS partition. Had any one used this tool?. Your = Views Pls

Best Regards

Sriram Kumar
=20

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From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_cybcon.com]=20 Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:15 PM To: Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: Re: slightly ot but oracle/linux related

I once purchased Partition Magic for this purpose.

I forget what the problem is/was, but it doesn't work for splitting a FAT/NTFS partition for the purpose of adding a linux partition.

cfdisk/druid/fdisk/what_have_you on the other hand *does* work.

Jared

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 06:37, Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On 02/19/2004 09:24:28 AM, mkb wrote:
> > Also note that SuSE 9.0 comes with a disk partitioning
> > utility.
> >=20
> > I had already installed WinXP o and it took all of my
> > 80gb hd. I then installed SuSE 9.0 and was able to
> > partition the disk in half so that WinXP has about
> > 37gb and SuSE has the other 37gb.
> >=20
> > I'm surprised RH doesn't a similar functionality.
> >

>=20

> It does come with that functionality. RH has several utilities which
> do exactly that, fdisk and parted among other things. Those utilities =

> are not gooey, but command line and can do whatever YaST2 or some =
other =20
> gooey tool can do. Bottom line is that disk partitioning is not
> for beginners or fainthearted people. If you know what you're doing,
> you can do it with fdisk. If you don't know what you're doing and =20
> you're doing it anyway, you should have been a politician.
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