[H-GEN] partition programs

[Stuart Longland]

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David wrote:

> Hi All...
> I have just bought a 80ghz WD800 7200 8mb cache drive.....
> i would like to partition it so that it looks as if it is 2 40ghz h/d
> have looked around for a linux program to do it but i cant seem to find
> one that easily does the job....[...]

Yes, there are several programs:
As mentioned by Geoff:
- - fdisk (command driven)
- - cfdisk (ncurses, menu driven)

Some others:
- - parted (command driven)
- - QTParted, PartGUI (GUIs to parted)

I've found the GUI versions are good at visualising the layout (which is
useful -- I have autism, and hence, think graphically), but I've found
they're a little shakey in their development state.  fdisk isn't that
difficult to drive... the commands you need to remember are:

- - n -- Create new partition.
- - p -- List partitions.
- - t -- Change filesystem type of partition.
- - o -- Chuck out old partition table and rebuild from scratch.
- - d -- Delete a partition.

In parted, the 'help' command is fairly self explanitary.  It also has
the advantage that it's able to resize partitions.  fdisk can do it too,
but isn't quite as easy.  Also, parted uses MBytes as the unit of
measure for the location and size of partitions, fdisk uses blocks or
cylendars -- slightly less useful IMHO.

My suggestion, give a few of them a go... if you strike troubles, the
rest of us are here.
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