On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:37 AM, William Case<billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi; > > I am not looking for advice on how to partition or re-partition a hard > drive. I have done it many times. > > I am looking for suggestions and/or recommendations on how to most > efficiently and effectively use gParted. I like its gui interface and > its apparent stability. > > It seems I can do one of the following: > > 1. Boot into Fedora in single user mode and then use 'parted' (or > fdisk) from the command line, or > 2. Use Firstaid in rescue mode (I haven't tried this yet but just > assume Firstaid will only give me 'parted' on the commandline), > or > 3. Burn gParted-live.iso image to CD and keep it has a single > purpose partitioning disk. (This should give me the gui version, > I would think.), or > 4. Any other suggestions applicable in Fedora. > > I have gParted from the F10 repository when I first installed F10, but > of course, it is no use to me if I want to re-size my '/home' directory > which is currently mounted. I have both the GParted LiveCD[1] and the SystemRescueCD[2] I have the tendency to use the SystemRescueCD because it starts out with a text CLI, which is helpful with some very old systems. [1] http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
