[H-GEN] Linux and Partitions

[Rob Kearey]

Frank Brand wrote:

> My question was about partitioning. I am finding that one partition may
> start before the previous partition finishes eg:-

> Part 1 1-500 cyls
> Part 2 499-600 cyls

Yes - is Bad.

> When this happens it is impossible to just delete partitions and the
> only way to fix this AFAIK is to run disk-manager. Not everybody is
> aware of this and not everybody has easy access to disk manager software
> (On-Track say) which is almost universally DOS based.

Have you had a look at GNU Parted?

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/

A truly excellent bit of kit.

> In relation to Andrew Draper's response, I don't think all the later
> distros give you the partitioning option I think Mandrake (DiskDrake)
> and Red Hat 6.2 do not give you the option (I could be wrong here but
> that is how I remember it). In earlier versions there was an fdisk
> option which I preferred to take.

In RH you choose the "expert" option during install.

> Frank Brand

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Rob Kearey
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