Gone are the days when I had to install Win98 and then Partition Magic and then partitioning which took ages and then install Redhat or Mandriva or Debian with dual booting and in spite of Linux installed Nero was my writing tool.
Suffice is to say Nero had done enough damage to my CD/DVD ROMs and Graphic Cards.
Then there was no K3B.
Beauty of K3B is it diagnoses the defective CD / DVD and reject them after examination without damaging the RAM or the CD/DVD ROMs.
Next stage is Live CDs starting with PCLinux-2007.
The transmigration and single booting with multiple Linux distributions in my computer network and liberation from proprietary components has given me opportunity to investigate partition tools in Linux.
My favorite partition tool is and was Partition tool in SuSe which is excellent and gave me lot of freedom and opportunities.
But then again I have to have SuSe installed to get full use of the partition tool.
Now SuSe Studio has spawned a KDE Partition Magic it is rightful I should mention about the others for newbies.
1. R.I.P (Recovery Is Possible) is one of my favorite Live CD which I use for partitioning.
2. Damn Small Linux and gparted is the first of my choices those days.
3. Gparted live CD.
4. Partition Magic CD in zip format only a Linux distribution can decipher is the latest of my utilities.
5. PC Linux, Mandriva were my old friends but PCLinux has dropped dos partitions (which I keep for spare storage) which is a bit of pain.
My only grouse now is most of the partition tools including SuSe limits partitions to 15 which is absurd with hard disks over 500 GB are on the market and guys like me who want to have several Linux distributions in one box.
If one distribution has failed in a trick I mount another and do the job.
For example SuSe gives limited space for Thrash and it cannot delete a large (for example an image of 4GB) file.
Then I mount PCLinux and do the job of deleting the large file with its help.
Do not get fixed to one Linux distribution (especially Ububtu) since there are hundreds of out there with many utilities like blender, gamabse, audio video (Media Box) and many more to have fun with.
To have fun and have many distributions you need a partitioning tool and one has to master partitioning.
It is as chicken feed now unlike the days I was struggling to get everything right at least once a year in December before i recess for some holiday and relaxing.
Fortunately because my 100 Linux adventure (111 now) I can have a long holiday well before December.
Enjoy all partitioning tools they do not hurt the hard disks unlike Microsoft utilities.
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