[ale] partitioning

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Fri Jul 13 13:47:05 EDT 2007


Paul Cartwright wrote:
> parted is about as friendly as... well

Parted's not actually that bad. I imagine the command you want is 
'parted $DEVICE mkpartfs primary ext2 0% 100%', where $DEVICE is the 
drive you want to partition. This will also create the filesystem.

If you have X, GParted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/) is much more 
intuitive to use. I'd recommend it over QTParted, which hasn't been 
updated since 2004.

-Brian




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