Re: slightly ot but oracle/linux related
- From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Oracle-L Freelists <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:44:33 -0800
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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I'm surprised RH doesn't a similar functionality.
> >
>
> 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
> 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
> you're doing it anyway, you should have been a politician.
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