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Linux And Partitions
Name: Dark666 Date: April 1, 2006 at 04:13:49 Pacific OS: none CPU/Ram: 2.0 Pentium M / 1GB DDR2 Product: Toshiba Qosmio G20
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Hi to all. Simple question. What is the Linux distro that has the most powerfull partitioning software? Its all because of this http://www.computing.net/hardware/wwwboard/forum/42391.html Check it out.
Name: GX1 Man Date: April 1, 2006 at 18:41:03 Pacific
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cfdisk does just fine and is included with a LOT of distros (Slackware, for one).
I don't know about the "most powerful". That seems a little redundant.
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Name: 3Dave Date: April 3, 2006 at 07:24:25 Pacific
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fdisk (the *nix one and not the dos version) and the more user-friendly cfdisk should both be able to change partition types to unhidden. Parted (it has a GUI frontend called qtparted) is pretty good and a little bit more powerful than (c)fdisk for resizing partitions etc.
As far as I remember from my windoze days gdisk was a good powerful replacement for fdisk under dos....
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