Help! Disk space error

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:10:36AM -0500, Andrew Malcolmson wrote:
> Yeah, try out this BootitNG, which looks pretty good, or burn a copy of
> Knoppix and you'll have disk related utilities such as:
> ntfsresize (as already mentioned - I think the fact that it's on Knoppix
> is a vote of confidence for this program)
> qtparted (graphical parted - no console version for some reason)
> partimage and partimaged - partition imaging client and server
> install-mbr
> sfdisk
> cfdisk
> Logical Volume Manager tools
> etc.
> etc.
> 
> I own Partition Magic 7 but hardly use it anymore.  Only supports ext2
> and I'm not spending $50 US to ugrade to PQM 8 to get ext3 but not
> ReiserFS support.  Also, some people report problems with Linux
> partitions made by PQM.

I haven't seen any, but there may be.  I don't create partitions with
partition magic.

Using tune2fs to change ext3 to ext2 before resizing and back is not
that big a deal.

But if a free tool will do it too, then that is even better.

Lennart Sorensen
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