[ale] GNU parted

[coryechols at yahoo.com (Cory T. Echols)]

On 09/09, John Wells wrote:
> Has anyone used GNU parted?  I have a wincrap 98 partition I rarely use
> (gaming and some finance stuff) with about 8 GB of  unused space.  My
> freebsd and linux partitions on the same drive, however, are rapidly
> filling up.  My intention is to use GNU parted to reallocate some of the
> unused wincrap partition to the others, but I'm very wary of
> repartitioning programs.
> 
> Could anyone pass on good/bad experiences?
> 
> Thanks,
> John

I've used parted a couple times to resize and copy linux partitions and
had no trouble with it.  It's a little more limited than Partition
Magic, though.  It can only move the "rightmost" end of a partition, for
example.

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