[NTLUG:Discuss] PARTED and repartitioning on the fly

[Charles Cashion]

Johnny Cybermyth wrote:

> You could use the gnu parted program.  They offer a 2 floppy boot disk 
> version that allows you to boot into a minimal Linux system and mess 
> with the partition table, including resizing with data-loss protection. 
>  Also, some live cd's have parted included.
> 
> I've used gnu parted a handful of times, most recently being yesterday, 
> and it always works like a champ.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/
> 
> --Johnny Cybermyth

Parted sounds like a wonderful topic for one of the future beginner
classes.

--Charles Cashion