On Monday 05 January 2004 1:23 pm, Tim Nicholson wrote:
I use Acronis Partition Expert, which understands more formats than I have heard of. It happily recognises Linux swap parts and Reiser parts. (As do all the Acronis tools, they install cygwin as part of their main install which is presumably why they can handle it)
My concern with any of the alternatives to Partition Magic is that they might run into the same problem as Partition Magic with an existing hard drive: Linux fdisk thinks it's OK but PM finds its partition table unreadable. I'd end up having bought software that is useless to me. And, of course, low-level tinkering with partition tables can be very, very hazardous, especially if you're not entirely sure of what you're doing. To add to the unpleasantness of my situation: the drive in question is an 80GB-er about 65% full, so backing it up completely and rebuilding it isn't an option. But nevertheless I'll ask the question: can anyone point me to a definitive standard for partition tables? Paul Abrahams Paul Abrahams