On 27-Jul-99 Art Rowe wrote:
> 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
I've taken a look at it, but haven't tried partitioning with it yet (since
generally I'd do partitioning either during an installation, or beforehand from
a boot disk). It looks functional and useable. It appears to be able to
resize DOS partitions, but cannot resize Linux partitions yet.
To extract a tar.gz (or tgz) file, use this command:
tar zxvf <filename>
-Most- tar.gz will extract into their own subdirectory under the directory you
extract them from. In the case of DiskDrake, if it hasn't changed since I
tried it, it extracts into a directory called 'diskdrake'. cd into that dir,
and type './diskdrake.README' which runs a script that compiles some source code
and then runs diskdrake. After that you can just type './diskdrake' from the
diskdrake directory to run it.
That's assuming they haven't changed that since I tried it, though; keep in
mind it's still rapidly developing beta software. :) Also if there are any
documentation files with it (like a README), read them.
> 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?
