Partitioning tools

[bani-banan]

Hiya guys!

It's been 4 weeks since I've started to use ubuntu full-time and I must say - I like it.
But, the ATI drivers are horrible and GIMP just isn't doing it for me.

That means, I have to go back to using Vista.

Now, I'm looking for a partitioning tool that will partition my fully allocated hard drive.

QTParted can't do it (don't really know why). The only options I'm given is to format it.

I'm looking for a solution that will help me. I know installing Vista on a second partition will overwrite the MBR.

The only reason I want to keep the ubuntu partition is because I bought Tv-shows and music off of iTunes. Which means that I will be using the live cd to transfer the files from one partition to the other.

Would burning the latest Knoppix distro help me? I know it has QTParted "natively", but would it help me? Also, other solutions are appreciated.

Thanks

[geekdw]

gparted is popular (and free)

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

[slonkak]

QTParted can't do it (don't really know why). The only options I'm given is to format it.

Are you trying to repartition while booted into Ubuntu? That's not good and I'm not surprised it doesn't work. Your idea of getting Knoppix is the way to go. You need to be outside of your partitions when you resize them. Using a LiveCD will do this for you. You can use QTParted or GParted, whichever you like better (the only difference is QTParted looks like a KDE app while GParted looks like a Gnome app, the core is still `Parted` which is a command line app).

So yeah, definitely get a live cd and do your resizing from there.

[bani-banan]

Oh alright!

Thanks for the help guys!

Vista allows users to first "decrease" their partition, then allocating the unallocated area. (Ie, you make your main drive (C:) 20GB out of 100, which leaves 80GB unallocated).

Thanks again!

[computoman]

But, the ATI drivers are horrible and GIMP just isn't doing it for me.

You probably do not have the latest drivers, You may want to look at the restricted drivers feature of ubuntu. Sometimes ubuntu does not always set up the ati cards right. I know it drove me crazy on my imac till I squared it away. It looks really good now. Now that ati is more forthcoming with the specs, ati cards will no longer be a challenge,


There are a ton of free training videos on the net for the gimp.

[slonkak]

Vista allows users to first "decrease" their partition, then allocating the unallocated area. (Ie, you make your main drive (C:) 20GB out of 100, which leaves 80GB unallocated).

I knew you were going to say that. :) I don't know what kind of magic Vista is doing, but it's never a good idea to modify a partition that is being used. So many things could go wrong, and while Vista may take precautions to prevent these things, I'm not willing to spend the 5 hours reinstalling the whole OS because it forgot to do something important. It's just one of those "better safe than sorry" things...

You probably do not have the latest drivers, You may want to look at the restricted drivers feature of ubuntu.

I don't use Ubuntu, so I don't know what you mean when you say "restricted drivers set," but if he is using the latest version of Xorg, neither ATI or NVIDIA have drivers that work. The newest Xorg made a major modification and the two big vendors have yet to fix their driver set. If you google for Fedora 9 compiz and stuff like that you'll see a lot of people complaining (since Fedora 9 uses the new Xorg). That's what I use and it's a royal PITA to not have Compiz. I never knew how useful some of the stuff was until I didn't have it.