Wednesday, April 30, 2008

gparted vs partition magic

Guess Partition magic is familiar to most folks around.

However, I wanted an Free Open Source solution addressing the same purpose.

My searches have led me to parted
(http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/index.shtml)
and it's gui-enabled frontend gparted
(http://gparted.sourceforge.net/)

There's a gparted live cd,
(http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php)
which is a bootable linux cd which takes you straight to the gparted gui.

Also, gparted is available on the "SystemRescueCd" liveCD distribution.
(http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page)

Also, here's a good link on using gparted to partition hard drives on Windows Vista preinstalled laptops.
(http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/)

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