Re: [FarsiLinux] repartitioning application

[Matthias Laabs]

Arash Bijanzadeh <address@hidden> wrote:

> I think we should include a reliable partition resizing application
> with shabdix; so the windows users could part their partitions and
> install shabdix. Could somebody do a research on it

windows users usually use FAT32 or NTFS:

nparted (1) , which is included in knoppix, can repartition (or
destroy) fat32.

ntfsresize (2) can repartition NTFS.

in debian-installer (3) will be a graphical partition tool (4) by Vikram
Singh. I will ask about the ntfs/fat32 repartition status. Would be nice
to have one frontend that combines ntfs and fat32 tools smoothly.


greets,

Matthias


(1)
http://www.phpcad.com/knoppix-install.html#Harddisk_Installation_Procedure
"If You Need to Resize Partitions (this is not part of the install)
"cfdisk" can only create and delete partitions.  To resize partitions
you need a tool like "nparted" or "parted" which is on the disk (or
"partition magic" or "ranish"). Warning I personnally destroyed my
partitions using "nparted", however my partition table was not clean and
I did not know what I was doing.  Nparted can resize FAT32. "

(2) http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
"The ntfsresize program non-destructively resizes Windows XP/2000/NT4 or
Windows Server 2003 NTFS filesystems. It is part of the open source
Linux-NTFS project and included in the ntfsprogs package."
"No destroyed filesystem was reported who followed the instructions
correctly."

(3) http://people.debian.org/~pere/debian-installer

(4) http://people.debian.org/~pere/debian-installer/gtk-frontend.html