You can also try "regular" parted, in the "parted" package. This is a command-line tool, very reliable, and fairly easy to use.
Personally I'd rather not use a GUI to munge my partitions, especially as the X server has not been all that stable lately. qtparted is a frontend to parted. Unfortunately, as I understand, parted (and presumably also qtparted) cannot move the start of an ext2, ext3 or reiserfs partition, so you may have trouble doing what you need to do - you may need to stuff around with shrinking your partition, then copying it, then deleting the old one and expanding the new one or something like that. Might be quicker just to reinstall! If you can make a backup of your filesystems, then repartition, then restore, it might be easier. Beats me why it can't move the start, I would have thought that would only involve copying blocks. Also, the version of parted in sarge doesn't have reiserfs support because libreiserfs isn't in sarge - does anyone know why libreiserfs was pulled? Sounds to me like the moral of the story is "use LVM"! Sam Package: parted Description: The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. This package contains the Parted binary and manual page. . Parted currently supports DOS, Mac, Sun, BSD, GPT, MIPS and PC98 disklabels/partition tables, as well as a 'loop' (raw disk) type which allows use on RAID/LVM. Filesystems which are currently fully supported are ext2, ext3, fat (FAT16 and FAT32), ReiserFS (with libreiserfs) and linux-swap. Parted can also detect and remove HFS (Mac OS), JFS, NTFS, UFS (Sun and HP), XFS and ASFS/AFFS/APFS (Amiga) filesystems, but cannot create, resize or check these filesystems yet. . Note that ReiserFS support is only enabled if you install the libreiserfs0.3-0 package. Since libreiserfs0.3-0 has been removed from sarge, ReiserFS support is not compiled in the default package. . The nature of this software means that any bugs could cause massive data loss. While there are no known bugs at the moment, they could exist, so please back up all important files before running it, and do so at your own risk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
