I've had good luck with GPartED (Gnome Partition Editor) from
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
which is a stand alone iso, burn to a separate CD. I've also used Gnome
Partition Editor from System, Administration on a booted system. It may or may
not be on the CD Live System, Administration depending on the Ubuntu level and
the space they had on the 700 mb iso. However it is on Applications,
Add/Remove, Search, Gparted and I presume but haven't tried to install the
package on CD Live.
Frankly I prefer standalone GParted to any of the built in partitioning
methods in Install; I only ran the partitioning in Xubuntu install to
test it, and it failed. The stand alone version is independent from
anything that is installed on the hard drive(s) so it doesn't get
confused in what's mounted or not mounted or in use or not or for that
matter functioning or not. I've successfully (with great care) done
both resize and move as well as create and delete partitions.
The Gparted package in System, Administratin is a handy menu driven way
to format the USB pen drive for the "persistent" feature of Dapper and
Edgy ("persistent" doesn't work on Feisty yet) requiring the command
line only for e2label /dev/sd?1 casper-rw. where ? varies depending on
configuration.
Cheers, Jerry
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