fdisk, sfdisk, parted, kpartx, and pyparted.

fdisk is not recomended for really large disks since it only handles DOS partition tables -- use parted to create GPT partition tables.

I prefer GPT fdisk for that and rolled my own rpm ...

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Robert Heller wrote:

At Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:02:49 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

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Good day,

Gparted is not available on my installation.

Which patition tool is available in centos 5.5 please.

fdisk, sfdisk, parted, kpartx, and pyparted.

fdisk is not recomended for really large disks since it only handles DOS partition tables -- use parted to create GPT partition tables.

...

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Thanks. I was looking for a graphical tool Johan

Keith Roberts wrote:

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Johan Scheepers wrote:

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To: centos centos@centos.org From: Johan Scheepers johansche@telkomsa.net Subject: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - which partition manager installed

Good day,

Gparted is not available on my installation.

Which patition tool is available in centos 5.5 please.

Hi Johan.

It's available from rpmforge repository:

Installed Packages Name : gparted Arch : i386 Version : 0.4.8 Release : 4.el5.rf Size : 3.4 M Repo : installed Summary : Gnome Partition Editor URL : http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ License : GPLv2+ Description: GParted stands for Gnome Partition Editor and is a graphical frontend : to libparted. Among other features it supports creating, resizing, : moving and copying of partitions. Also several (optional) filesystem : tools provide support for filesystems not included in libparted. : These optional packages will be detected at runtime and don't require : a rebuild of GParted

As well as installing it from the above, I'd recommend getting the live CD from the Gparted website:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

As this is handy for preparing your hard drive, before doing a fresh installation of Linux. Some things are not possible when using Gparted from a working Linux installation.

As the Gparted CD runs from memory, you can do anything you want to any partition using this.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

Busy installing gparted fron centos repos. Thanks Johan

Rudi Ahlers wrote:

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Johan Scheepers johansche@telkomsa.net wrote:

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Good day,

Gparted is not available on my installation.

Which patition tool is available in centos 5.5 please.

Thanks Johan _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Have you tried to see what other tools are installed? And, have you tried to install gparted?

Now busy installing it. Thanks Johan

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Johan Scheepers johansche@telkomsa.net wrote:

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Good day,

Gparted is not available on my installation.

Which patition tool is available in centos 5.5 please.

Thanks Johan

gparted is just the "Gnome" GUI for parted. "parted" works very well at the command line, and has options that the Gnome utility lacks, such as block alignment for NFS OS images residing on 4096 byte block NetApps. (Ask if you're curious, but parted is your friend for this.)

and if you really want the gui, I can see gparted is in rpmforge.