Has anyone tried DiskDrake, a Linux Sisk Tool which does partitions. I
downloaded but haven't figured out how to unzip it. It is a beta
program.
Art
Andy Goth wrote:
>
> > Basically what Partition Magic does that fdisk doesn't, is resize existing
> > partitions without requiring you to first destroy them (and everything on them)
> > and recreate them. I guess that's convenient but -I- wouldn't pay $70 for it.
> > :)
>
> So it's a nondestructive partition resizer? That doesn't sound
> exceedingly hard to write. I mean, shouldn't fdisk be able to do this?
> I understand that it's still *much* easier to reformat everything, but
> moving data... The snag is that it'll take direct writes. It shouldn't
> be too hard to grab one block of data and move it over some on disk. If
> they overlap, start from the other direction. Use memory, too, when the
> overlapping gets to be too much. What more is there?
