Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

[Joe Zien <jozien@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul W. Abrahams wrote:

> On Monday 05 January 2004 12:07 am, mjt wrote:
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> > ... i've used Partition Magic for quite a long time and recently got 
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> frustrated
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> > at its slant to the microsoft world. i gave up on it and system
> > commander ... quite frankly, i dont care what PM reports anymore :)
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> Are there any Linux alternatives to PM that offer the same functionality, 
> including resizing and moving Windows partitions?  (PM doesn't handle Reiser 
> or even ext3, so it falls down in that respect.)
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> Paul Abrahams
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I have used PM for years and never had a problem.
Recently used it to resize an NTFS windo$ XP partition
on a DELL I1100 laptop.
I only use PM to shrink the partition and create unalocated space
and use the distribution to create the swap and ext2 or ext3 partition.
Works every time.

jozien