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Please add Qtparted to Puppy
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raffy
Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4639 Location: Manila |
Gparted works in Puppy2 for resizing NTFS partition - just make sure you defragment the NTFS from inside Windows, surface-scan the drive (which it will do after a reboot), do a normal shutdown, then finally load Puppy2 and run Gparted to resize the NTFS partition. See this or search this forum for instructions in partitioning the free space with cfdisk. Gparted refreshes itself so it is possible to create the new Puppy partitions in Gparted. I chose to use cfdisk in console as my 128 MB test PC is very low in free space (6 MB). |
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Lobster
Official Crustacean  Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15109 Location: Paradox Realm |
Good advice Raffy - I used Qparted - a great program - to resize Vista beta 2 without a defrag - well it was a new install and it fried Windows Vista. . . . actually I am quite glad it was like a sloth on poisonous crap . . . a distro that big and with that much noise and so little usable software - and they expect a lease or rental agreement to use it. Pah! Remember. Stay frisky. Viva La Pup _________________ Puppy WIKI |
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cliff_the_kilt
Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Scotland, UK |
I like QTParted, but my favourite partitioning software is Partition Commander 9,01 with Partition Magic Pro 8.05 a close second. Both can be found as freeware packages, a decent search Engine should find them for you. |
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sunburnt
 Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4016 Location: Arizona, U.S.A. |
I looked at partitioning apps. in general for setting up HD & USB drives. Most ISOs are 30 MB for the GUI versions, I didn't find a smaller one. I have a 64 MB USB with DOS & Partition Magic (DOS) on it that's great. I think the Puppy community should offer a "drive setup / rescue" USB. The smaller the better for the dialup folks, 30 MB is way too big. I think 5 MB to 10 MB should be enough for this. It should do: partitions, SysLinux & Grub, & anti virus (maybe other stuff). If someone knows or finds one... Let us know! Short of that, I'll make a GTK GUI if a CLI only one is found. |
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muggins
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon |
somebody was recommending the floppy based partition manager awhile ago. i've never tried it myself so can't vouch for it. but i see that it's on the latest ultimatebootcd, under partition tools. |
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ShellyCat
Joined: 13 May 2011 Posts: 39 Location: USA |
Some more command-line tools (but for formatting, not partitioning) are mkfs, mkdosfs, mkswap, and similar. I ran into an issue recently after I wiped my Absolute Linux install and created new partitions (with fdisk)...in the Puppy I use, Quickset Puppy, even if your locale and language are set to English, the GUI for GParted is rendered in Japanese! I'm not sure if it's a bug or lack of translation (have not reported it yet, just encountered this tonight). I couldn't remember the names of the Linux tools because I so rarely use them...usually I choose the filesystem during the install process. But I'm not "installing" Puppy. F.Y.I. I ended up using:
A quick Google for "format drive linux -gparted" brought up forum posts which happened to mention various tools, and a quick "mkfs --help" or "mkfs" at the command line brings up the most commonly-used options, which is fine for simple tasks. I should point out to newbies that the "--help" option was invalid for mkfs; however, even if you don't know whether "--help" or "/h" will work with an unknown command, you should always use it (instead of the command alone)! Why? Because if the command does take action with no options, you might make a big boo-boo! _________________ Puppy Distro: pup-431JPqs3 "Quickset Puppy Linux (Japanese/English bilingual)" Previous distros: Slackware (preferred), Fedora Core 6 (in school), Ubutntu (not much) |
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