Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the divide-for-conquer dept.
dayeight wrote in
to tell us about Linux Mandrake's new
DiskDrake GUI Disk Partitioner
and resizer
GTK Based replacement for FIPS or Partition Magic- it looks like
a promising for the free world.
Good work, but not quite a replacement.
by
David+Ziegler
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· Score: 3
At first glance, DiskDrake appears to be a very great step for Linux - no more reliance on Disk Druid or fips or Partition Magic, or whatever. However, it's missing one feature Partition Magic has which really sets Partition Magic apart - it can't resize ext2 drives. According to the website,
resize partitions (when not caring loosing its data)
That sounds to me like no ext2 resize-on-the-fly support. It's not needed often, but when it is, it's a really nice feature to have. I've had to install Linux multiple times after adding/removing DOS partitions for whatever reason, and it's no fun. DiskDrake looks like a great program, definitely a step up, but until it gets ext2 resize support, Partition Magic's the way to go for ext2 resize, DiskDrake/fips/whatever for your Linux partition manager of choice.
Re:Good work, but not quite a replacement.
by
mangino
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· Score: 3
The code to do that which is part of Partition Magic will be released as open source shortly. Part of the deal the author made when he wrote that code is that it would later be opensourced.
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Mike Mangino
mmangino@acm.org
Windows port 'envisioned'?
by
Jburkholder
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· Score: 3
Ok, this is great news, just a question, though.
The article says:
"Recently, a new need for hard-drive partioners has been felt with the growing success of Linux: people often want to install Linux on their PC without having to remove Windows(tm)."
Ok fine, but... if this is initially written for Linux, is there going to be a lot of interest? Granted, it would be great if an installer could resize your partitions for you on the fly to make room for Linux. I guess from my perspective, I'd be more comfortable using a 3rd-party package like Powerquest PM4 to do the changes from within windows and make sure that it still works before doing a Linux install.
But then, that's just me. I hope this does well, I'm just scratching my head wondering if the targeted users for this would really be interested. Who knows?
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At first glance, DiskDrake appears to be a very great step for Linux - no more reliance on Disk Druid or fips or Partition Magic, or whatever. However, it's missing one feature Partition Magic has which really sets Partition Magic apart - it can't resize ext2 drives. According to the website,
resize partitions (when not caring loosing its data)
That sounds to me like no ext2 resize-on-the-fly support. It's not needed often, but when it is, it's a really nice feature to have. I've had to install Linux multiple times after adding/removing DOS partitions for whatever reason, and it's no fun. DiskDrake looks like a great program, definitely a step up, but until it gets ext2 resize support, Partition Magic's the way to go for ext2 resize, DiskDrake/fips/whatever for your Linux partition manager of choice.
-David Ziegler
-dziegler@hotmail.com
-David Ziegler
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Ok, this is great news, just a question, though.
The article says:
"Recently, a new need for hard-drive partioners has been felt with the growing success of Linux: people often want to install Linux on their PC without having to remove Windows(tm)."
Ok fine, but... if this is initially written for Linux, is there going to be a lot of interest? Granted, it would be great if an installer could resize your partitions for you on the fly to make room for Linux. I guess from my perspective, I'd be more comfortable using a 3rd-party package like Powerquest PM4 to do the changes from within windows and make sure that it still works before doing a Linux install.
But then, that's just me. I hope this does well, I'm just scratching my head wondering if the targeted users for this would really be interested. Who knows?
To make this perfect, they should do a version with an ncurses or newt frontend, so you can put it on a single-floppy distribution of Linux.
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Open mind, insert foot.