CentOS - Nov 2010 - 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.

Thanks
Johan

At Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:02:49 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos at
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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.
> 
> Thanks
> Johan
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On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> To: centos <centos at centos.org>
> From: Johan Scheepers <johansche at 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

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in practice they are not.

This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Johan Scheepers <johansche at
telkomsa.net> wrote:
> Good day,
>
> Gparted is not available on my installation.
>
> Which patition tool is available in centos 5.5 please.
>
> Thanks
> Johan
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Have you tried to see what other tools are installed?
And, have you tried to install gparted?

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