If Only Moses Had PartedMagic
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Many of you have asked me for a recommendation for a partition tool. In the past, I’ve recommended Partition Magic, which of course is not free. Wirelesspacket gave me a link to a free partitioning program that appears to be quite good!
PartedMagic is an Open Source project. It is a Linux Live CD/USB/PXE with its elemental purpose being to partition hard drives.
What is a partition, you ask? Well, to put it in simple terms… take your disk on your computer. Usually, your C drive. You can use this tool to create “partitions” on it, that is, separate sections. You can have one that boots a Linux distro, one that boots Windows, and even one for your music files. You see where I’m going with this? A partition tool will help you divide that hard disk, and manage the separate sections… or partitions.
There are two things that make PartedMagic stand out above other alternatives. One is the fact that it comes with complete documentation. The other thing is the sheer number of file systems it supports. PartedMagic supports the following: ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs.
I’m always interested in hearing your tips, tricks, ideas, and programs you can’t live without. I encourage you to send me your thoughts via a comment to this or any other video, or by sending me an email to chris@prillo.com.
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3 Comments
Grannar Olice
October 31st, 2007
at 5:48am
Good search–this is probably the best of the freebies–thanks Chris!
Jonathan
October 31st, 2007
at 6:19am
Imagine my surprise when I went to the PartedMagic website and discovered I can’t download the file. 404 - file not found. Drat, I wanted to try this one out too!
grannar olice
December 9th, 2007
at 11:21am
Yes, the links at partedmagic.com are 404, but the rest of the links–rubenal.com and download.com–test live. It is not uncommon for the provider to kill links taking their bandwidth and to rely on the mirrors for distribution. As usual, download.com is a reliable high bandwidth provider and shoulders partedmagic’s request for a link. Thanks again to the Open Source Linux community.