Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 11:58 pm, Felix Miata wrote:
The ultimate solution is a partitioner that runs natively under most or all the operating systems for which it supports native formats. I don't know of any that do all, but DFSee currently runs under windoze, OS/2 & DOS, and supports ext2/ext3. It's Linux port is in development, and expected in under a year from now, maybe only a few months. It has excellent author support, and appears to suffer from no result gotchas, only a steeper learning curve than is popular, and a license fee for continued use and support. URL below includes relevant DFSee links, as well as much other useful partitioning info.
I'd rather not run a partitioner at the same time I'm running an OS. Too many things can go wrong and quite often you're faced with a need to run it on bare-metal anyway.... I prefer stand-alone.
"runs natively under most or all the operating systems for which it supports native formats" means you can run the same utility with no relearning regardless what you have available to boot to use it. DOS is nice and small and boots fast even from a floppy. DFSee has a nice small image available for those who want to put DOS and DFSee on a little floppy and get the job done quickly.
No one has mentioned Acronis Disk Director which run a linux kernel and supports almost all of the file formats except XFS. And XFS will be coming along as soon as they implement a later kernel.
There's a whole bunch of partitioning tools on http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ -- "Never tire of doing what is right." 2 Thessalonians 3:13 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/