J. B: > Jochen Spieker <m...@well-adjusted.de> wrote: > >> I'd use parted (without being a big friend of its interface). > > no luck with parted. It throws error "couldn't detect filesystem"
If you don't tell me what exactly you are doing, I cannot tell you what you are doing wrong. Anyway, a minute of googling suggests that parted cannot be used to do what you want, I was wrong about that. But the Ubuntu formums have a fairly extensive howto about topic: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4530641 If your filesystem is not system-essential you do not need to boot off a live CD/DVD. And I would skip the step that involves creating a dummy partition that gets overwritten with random data. J. -- My medicine shelf is my altar. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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