solarian Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 (edited) Hi! Is there anything as easy and functional as Mandriva's diskdrake? A friend is coming over to put some files on her hdd and I'll need to rearrange and format a few paritions. Maybe there's a 3rd party app for this? I really don't know, have been using MCC most of my conscious Linux life. :P (Although I now like FC5 very much) Edited May 18, 2006 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 Give this CD a try: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted May 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 Thanks, but isn't there any way to do it from Fedora? It would suck if I have to reboot into another distro just to format a few partitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 Is there anything as easy and functional as Mandriva's diskdrake?I use a combination of Diskdrake and http://www.killdisk.com http://www.ranish.com/part/ Killdisk to wipe it completely to "0"s then the Ranish Partition Manager to rough out the MBR of the disk. So far Diskdrake has been totally friendly with Ranish and I've been able to create, just for fun, upwards of 30 seperate and discrete unique partitions on a disk. You can then, using first Ranish to designate one of those partitions as "Bootable" then install Mandriva to it using Diskdrake ( Use Existing Partition ). One of the best parts of this process is to create two absolutely identical partitions lets say two 60GB partitions on a 160GB drive that mirror one to the other. I then once a week mirror copy the working partition to the mirrored partition. Now the mirror ( inactive ) has an exact working copy of the working partition. If at any time I blow up my Mandriva working partition, and I do do that on occation, Ranish allows me to bit copy the mirror back to the working and I'm up and running again happy and free. This process has saved my butt more then once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmc77 Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 QTParted has worked well in FC5 for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted May 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 Thanks for advices! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 qtparted or gparted are both good choices, although I prefer gparted which integrates better into gnome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted May 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 Thanks. I use KDE. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 qtparted or gparted are both good choices, although I prefer gparted which integrates better into gnome. Thanks for the advice. Always used the Gparted-LiveCD. Now I've installed it with yum on my FC5 pc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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